{"id":77,"date":"2002-06-10T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-10T09:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2012-12-06T14:37:49","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T14:37:49","slug":"futbel-livingham-celebrates-first-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/2002\/06\/10\/futbel-livingham-celebrates-first-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Futbel Livingham celebrates first Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the first World Cup that has had a torch ball-type-thing we celebrated the idea&#8217;s First Birthday. Rob had told the Bar manager in Pusan it was my birthday and that my name was Futbel Livingham. This produced much celebratory staff attentions with accompanying fried squid &#8216;n&#8217; cocktail, and more importantly the announcement on the PA for &#8220;Futbel Livingham Birthday&#8221;. It was a proud moment for the ball and its journey.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width:320px;height:240px\" src=\"\/common\/images\/2002\/korea\/pusan\/livingham_phil.jpg\" alt=\"Myself, Futbel, with sparkler\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On behalf of &#8216;footballs leaving home&#8217;, I receive the treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Back a the hotel, things got a little raucous&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Big up the little guy<\/b><\/p>\n<p>By Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the first World Cup that has had a torch ball-type-thing we celebrated the idea&#8217;s First Birthday. Rob had told the Bar manager in Pusan it was my birthday and that my name was Futbel Livingham. This produced much celebratory staff attentions with accompanying fried squid &#8216;n&#8217; cocktail, and more importantly the announcement on the PA for &#8220;Futbel Livingham Birthday&#8221;. It was a proud moment for the ball and its journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-korea"],"geo":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","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=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}