{"id":31,"date":"2005-12-14T23:09:57","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T22:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritoffootball.com\/2006\/blog\/2005\/12\/14\/the-ball-2006"},"modified":"2010-01-18T22:44:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T22:44:38","slug":"the-ball-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/blog\/2005\/12\/14\/the-ball-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ball 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2006\/ball\/the_ball_2006_unsigned.jpg\" alt=\"The Replica Ball 2006\" style=\"width:320px;height:240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Okay, so <em>The Ball<\/em> &#8212; or <em>The Spirit of Football<\/em> to give it its full title here on this site &#8212; has been unveiled. This is a replica of the mind-bogglingly expensive official ball, but anyway this is what it looks like, folks. Its name is <em>Teamgeist<\/em>, which translates as <em>Team Spirit<\/em> and makes me wonder if someone at adidas is coming round to our way of thinking&#8230; they&#8217;ve got the word &#8220;spirit&#8221; in it after all. Only another three words to get in there and it&#8217;ll have converged completely. Can&#8217;t wait to start kicking it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2006\/ball\/the_ball_2006.jpg\" alt=\"The Replica Ball 2006\" style=\"width:320px;height:240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Okay, so <em>The Ball<\/em> &#8212; or <em>The Spirit of Football<\/em> to give it its full title here on this site &#8212; has been unveiled. This is a replica of the mind-bogglingly expensive official ball, but anyway this is what it looks like, folks. Its name is <em>Teamgeist<\/em>, which translates as <em>Team Spirit<\/em> and makes me wonder if someone at adidas is coming round to our way of thinking&#8230; they&#8217;ve got the word &#8220;spirit&#8221; in it after all. Only another three words to get in there and it&#8217;ll have converged completely. Can&#8217;t wait to start kicking it!<\/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-31","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\/31","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=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}