{"id":17,"date":"2002-04-11T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-11T07:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2012-12-13T11:13:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T11:13:50","slug":"o-sport-you-are-world-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/2002\/04\/11\/o-sport-you-are-world-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"O Sport, You Are World Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We love this sentiment, which we found at the training ground just outside Luzhniki Stadium&#8230; given the current troubles in the Middle East, does anyone fancy organising a game between Israel and Palestine, like the one at Christmas in 1914?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/russia\/o_sport\/peace.jpg\" alt=\"O Sport You Are World Peace\" style=\"width:320px;height:240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Could sport ever really bring peace, or is it just naivety?<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_embed alignnone\"><div class=\"sofvm_video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Visa training in Moscow\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZZA95aoz6Vg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p>Phil and Chris head for the Kazakh embassy for yet another round of intensive visa training.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_video_post_link\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/videos\/visa-training-in-moscow\/#respond\">Comment on this video<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sofvm_embed alignnone\"><div class=\"sofvm_video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Visa Training is not peaceful\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fx1i8KJ8bAA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p>Too many bureaucrats, too many forms and too little sleep causes frictions between friends.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_video_post_link\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/videos\/visa-training-is-not-peaceful\/#respond\">Comment on this video<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We love this sentiment, which we found at the training ground just outside Luzhniki Stadium&#8230; given the current troubles in the Middle East, does anyone fancy organising a game between Israel and Palestine, like the one at Christmas in 1914?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/russia\/o_sport\/peace.jpg\" alt=\"O Sport You Are World Peace\" style=\"width:320px;height:240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Could sport ever really bring peace, or is it just naivety?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia"],"geo":{"latitude":55.71468730000000135760274133644998073577880859375,"longitude":37.5608825999999993427991284988820552825927734375,"description":null},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}