{"id":49,"date":"2002-05-22T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-22T10:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2010-01-18T17:11:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T17:11:18","slug":"in-defence-of-the-birthplace-of-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/2002\/05\/22\/in-defence-of-the-birthplace-of-football\/","title":{"rendered":"In defence&#8230; of the Birthplace of Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/china\/xiahe\/can_on_the_ball.jpg\" alt=\"don't watch the adverts\" style=\"width: 320px;height: 240px\" \/><br \/>\nIf you watch the games, don&#8217;t watch the adverts<\/p>\n<p>As an aside to our trip, but of significant consequence to it, I&#8217;d like to mention the Football Fan&#8217;s Union and their campaign to &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-ffu.com\/itv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Can the Commercials<\/a>&#8216;. It seems that as many as 30 English football clubs face ruin because the Football League are owed UKP178.5million by ITV Digital. So if you watch the Opening Ceremony in England, don&#8217;t watch the adverts, but do go to the site and register your support. Simple as that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/china\/xiahe\/can_on_the_ball.jpg\" alt=\"don't watch the adverts\" style=\"width: 320px;height: 240px\" \/><br \/>\nIf you watch the games, don&#8217;t watch the adverts<\/p>\n<p>As an aside to our trip, but of significant consequence to it, I&#8217;d like to mention the Football Fan&#8217;s Union and their campaign to &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-ffu.com\/itv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Can the Commercials<\/a>&#8216;. It seems that as many as 30 English football clubs face ruin because the Football League are owed UKP178.5million by ITV Digital. So if you watch the Opening Ceremony in England, don&#8217;t watch the adverts, but do go to the site and register your support. Simple as that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"geo":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","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=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}