{"id":304506,"date":"2026-06-11T23:23:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/304506\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T23:23:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:23:16","slug":"major-league-pickleball-event-coming-to-st-pete-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/304506\/","title":{"rendered":"Major League Pickleball Event Coming To St. Pete For First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;After four years in Major League Pickleball, this is the first time the Florida Smash will compete on home turf,&#8221; Graham D&#8217;Amico, the team\u2019s owner, said. &#8220;We&#8217;re excited to bring the best format in pickleball, and the energy that comes with it, to the St. Pete community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The event is one of Major League Pickleball\u2019s premier competitions, Visit St. Pete-Clearwater said. MLP events, built around fast-paced, team play, are known for a festival-like atmosphere that includes music, team rivalries and fan interaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;After four years in Major League Pickleball, this is the first time the Florida Smash will compete on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-304506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}