{"id":47,"date":"2006-06-05T21:02:41","date_gmt":"2006-06-05T21:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritoffootball.com\/2006\/blog\/2006\/06\/05\/so-france-so-good"},"modified":"2012-12-13T15:32:52","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T15:32:52","slug":"so-france-so-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/blog\/2006\/06\/05\/so-france-so-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: So France, so good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2006\/france\/fr_calais_phil_door.jpg\" style=\"width:320px;height:240px\" alt=\"Arrival in France\" \/><br \/>\nArrivals, as it says<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_embed alignnone\"><div class=\"sofvm_video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A fortunate ferry to France\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1GlZAqKcuSs?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>With a bit of luck, The Ball crosses the English Channel to France.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_video_post_link\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/videos\/a-fortunate-ferry-to-france\/#respond\">Comment on this video<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<p>Since we left you hanging over the edge of the White Cliffs of Dover in our last post, this one is meant to reduce your stress levels as the World Cup approaches. I&#8217;m sure the media are whipping the populations of their various countries into a footballing frenzies, and, to paraphrase the great Douglas Adams, there are enough stresses in the world without inventing new ones to add to the real ones. So we&#8217;re giving you a slight spoiler for the next episode.<\/p>\n<p>We <em>did<\/em> make it to France (was there ever any doubt?) and the Phantom Fouler&#8217;s efforts to impede the progress of The Ball didn&#8217;t pay off in the long run &#8212; but more of that in the next installment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrivals, as it says Since we left you hanging over the edge of the White Cliffs of Dover in our last post, this one is meant to reduce your stress levels as the World Cup approaches. I&#8217;m sure the media are whipping the populations of their various countries into a footballing frenzies, and, to paraphrase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","category-video"],"geo":{"latitude":50.9671287999999975681930663995444774627685546875,"longitude":1.8499087999999999087918922668904997408390045166015625,"description":null},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","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=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}