{"id":54,"date":"2002-05-27T06:39:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-27T05:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2012-12-13T12:49:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T12:49:32","slug":"warrior-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/2002\/05\/27\/warrior-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Warrior on!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Terracotta Army! Make some noise!<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_embed alignnone\"><div class=\"sofvm_video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Terracotta Warrior On!\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b6BxniLrydw?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>As we move onwards into China proper, we wonder what kind of defensive tactics the terracotta warriors will use to try and stop us getting through.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_video_post_link\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/videos\/terracotta-warrior-on\/#respond\">Comment on this video<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<p>Xi&#8217;an provided us with a day&#8217;s break between Xiahe and Beijing, and, of course, the classic photo-opportunity of playing football in and amongst the Terracotta Army.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/china\/xian\/rob_warrior.jpg\" alt=\"Spot the player\" style=\"width: 320px;height: 240px\" \/><br \/>\nSpot the player<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Another near-lethal challenge from <a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/2002\/05\/09\/rob-signing-in\">the infamous Battersea Park fouler<\/a> (see the <a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/2002\/03\/28\/match-report\/\">match report<\/a> of our recreation of the 1864, Battersea Park, first ever football game played to FA rules) led to the awarding of a free kick by common consent. Sorry, ref, but you just weren&#8217;t around when we needed you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/china\/xian\/foul.jpg\" alt=\"referee!\" style=\"width: 320px;height: 240px\" \/><br \/>\nThe fouler strikes again<\/p>\n<p>From the resulting free kick, Phil spanked a curling right foot kick over the defensive wall of imitation terracotta warriors.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/china\/xian\/phil_kick.jpg\" alt=\"The free kick is taken\" style=\"width: 320px;height: 240px\" \/><br \/>\nThe free kick is taken<\/p>\n<p>And so to Beijing, with the wind at our backs, as well as the owner of the imitation warrior factory &#8211; if he ever sees these pictures. I want to let him know, though, that his staff loved the spectacle&#8230; mea culpa, nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Phil and Chris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Terracotta Army! Make some noise!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Xi&#8217;an provided us with a day&#8217;s break between Xiahe and Beijing, and, of course, the classic photo-opportunity of playing football in and amongst the Terracotta Army.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/china\/xian\/rob_warrior.jpg\" alt=\"Spot the player\" style=\"width: 320px;height: 240px\" \/><br \/>\nSpot the player<\/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-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china"],"geo":{"latitude":34.2583350999999964869857649318873882293701171875,"longitude":108.928611799999998765997588634490966796875,"description":null},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}