{"id":19,"date":"2002-04-13T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-13T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2012-12-13T11:16:05","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T11:16:05","slug":"the-central-asian-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/2002\/04\/13\/the-central-asian-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"The Central Asian Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve arrived in Uzbekistan, that&#8217;s for sure.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/uzbekistan\/tashkent\/uz_tash_money.jpg\" alt=\"Equivalents in cash\" style=\"width: 320px;height: 240px\" \/><br \/>\nEquivalents in cash<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_embed alignnone\"><div class=\"sofvm_video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Visa training in Tashkent\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fIJd61jIFLQ?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>Things take an unexpected turn at the Kyrgyz embassy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_video_post_link\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/videos\/visa-training-in-tashkent\/#respond\">Comment on this video<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<p>So then, more bureaucracy. Oh joy of joys. Still, on better note, we&#8217;ve just heard that <b>Ananova<\/b> published an article about us yesterday. Big shout to Ginny for the coverage. They&#8217;ve titled it &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_565810.html?menu=news.quirkies\" target=\"_blank\">Football fans create World Cup&#8217;s version of Olympic torch<\/a>&#8221; which we like &#8211; some nice touches too, such as the first line:<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;A group of men<\/i> (!!! &#8211; ed) <i>are taking a football from London to Japan to create the World Cup&#8217;s version of the Olympic torch.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/uzbekistan\/tashkent\/tashkent_bar_ball.jpg\" alt=\"The Ball hits the bar in Tashkent\" style=\"width: 320px;height: 240px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Ball hits the bar in Tashkent<\/p>\n<p>Our stay in Tashkent has been brief &#8211; just long enough to organise how to get out of the place, in fact. We&#8217;re heading for the ancient and historic city of Samarkhand, built by Tamerlane to be the capital of his vast empire stretching far and wide across Asia.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_embed alignnone\"><div class=\"sofvm_video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The road to Samarkhand\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ogiiZuKAquk?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>In which we leave Tashkent and anticipate meeting Rich.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_video_post_link\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/videos\/the-road-to-samarkhand\/#respond\">Comment on this video<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So then, more bureaucracy. Oh joy of joys. Still, on better note, we&#8217;ve just heard that <b>Ananova<\/b> published an article about us yesterday. Big shout to Ginny for the coverage. They&#8217;ve titled it &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_565810.html?menu=news.quirkies\" target=\"_blank\">Football fans create World Cup&#8217;s version of Olympic torch<\/a>&#8220;<\/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-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia"],"geo":{"latitude":41.30966190000000182180883712135255336761474609375,"longitude":69.2789230000000060272213886491954326629638671875,"description":null},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","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=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}