{"id":3170,"date":"2008-08-29T08:24:56","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T15:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3170"},"modified":"2008-08-29T11:48:29","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T18:48:29","slug":"carlsbads-world-pinball-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3170","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbad&#8217;s World Pinball Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s<\/em> <strong>Keith Elwin<\/strong>, 37, is somewhat of a pinball wizard. How else could he explain to World Championship titles. According to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20080829-9999-lz1mi29pinbal.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, Elwin just took first place at the Professional and Amateur Pinball Association in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The tournament, which draws about 500 players and spectators, is considered the Holy Grail of pinball competition. . . . &#8220;Sometimes I do get nervous and don&#8217;t know why,&#8221; Elwin said of competing. &#8220;I&#8217;ll kind of stay away from the tournament area, watch the other end of the building or go outside for a quick run. . . . &#8220;At this tournament, I wasn&#8217;t nervous.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It might help that Elwin&#8217;s day job is that of a pinball machine repairman at Area Amusements in San Marcos. Looks like mixing business and pleasure is working for the new World Champ. Congrats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20080829-9999-lz1mi29pinbal.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s Keith Elwin, 37, is somewhat of a pinball wizard. How else could he explain to World Championship titles. According to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune, Elwin just took first place at the Professional and Amateur Pinball Association in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The tournament, which draws about 500 players and spectators, is considered the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}