{"id":43,"date":"2002-05-14T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-14T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2010-01-18T16:50:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T16:50:15","slug":"the-kashgar-allstars-tackle-the-taklamakan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/2002\/05\/14\/the-kashgar-allstars-tackle-the-taklamakan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kashgar Allstars tackle the Taklamakan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/china\/desert\/desert_routemap.jpg\" alt=\"The road's not on the map\" style=\"width: 320px;height: 240px\" \/><br \/>\nOnwards and upwards<\/p>\n<p>The Ball left Niye in the early morning after the Kashgar Allstars&#8217; convincing victory, and headed north across the Tarim Basin and the second largest shifting sands desert on Earth, heading for Korla&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/china\/desert\/desert_highway.jpg\" alt=\"The Road to Turfan\" style=\"width: 320px;height: 240px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Road to Turfan<\/p>\n<p>The desert highway provided the team with a last chance to play together, and also to explore the changing landscapes across the 800 km of Taklamakan desert, which we crossed in a single gruelling day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/china\/desert\/desert_routemap.jpg\" alt=\"The road's not on the map\" style=\"width: 320px;height: 240px\" \/><br \/>\nOnwards and upwards<\/p>\n<p>The Ball left Niye in the early morning after the Kashgar Allstars&#8217; convincing victory, and headed north across the Tarim Basin and the second largest shifting sands desert on Earth, heading for Korla&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china"],"geo":{"latitude":38.00914759999999859019226278178393840789794921875,"longitude":83.078613300000000663203536532819271087646484375,"description":null},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","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=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}