{"id":13,"date":"2004-10-12T17:30:29","date_gmt":"2004-10-12T16:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritoffootball.com\/2006_blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2022-04-29T18:04:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T17:04:53","slug":"football-diy-in-burundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/blog\/2004\/10\/12\/football-diy-in-burundi\/","title":{"rendered":"Football DIY in Burundi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edit: the original article seems to have gone, but this video shows the process<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7jgvkOLiQXY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I stumbled across this article today &#8211; about getting a game together in Burundi. It reminded me so much of the children Phil and I saw all the way through Asia on our way to Korea. They would use anything to improve their football skills &#8211; we often saw children playing keep-up at the side of the road with balls made from tightly knotted herbs. Though we got no pictures of them (our driver wasn&#8217;t too keen on stopping for anything, even other traffic!) my memories are still vivid. So check out Henri&#8217;s photo-story for another example of footballing ingenuity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ingenuity that people have when trying to get a game together is exemplified by these children in Burundi who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burundidirect.net\/EN\/index.asp?d=57&amp;fb=%20-%20Old%20plastic%20bags%20turn%20into%20a%20football\">turn old plastic bags into a football<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"geo":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}