{"id":14,"date":"2009-11-24T13:57:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T13:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2018-04-29T15:43:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T14:43:31","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"splash_image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mali_djenne_mosque_ball.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mali_djenne_mosque_ball.jpg\" alt=\"The Ball at the mud mosque in Djenne\" title=\"The Ball at the mud mosque in Djenne\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignnone size-medium-320 wp-image-1324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mali_djenne_mosque_ball.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mali_djenne_mosque_ball-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mali_djenne_mosque_ball-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mali_djenne_mosque_ball-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mali_djenne_mosque_ball-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mali_djenne_mosque_ball-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"splash_copy\">\n<div class=\"splash_copy_inner\">\n<p><em>How did Africa gear up for its first World Cup? Where was the first game in Africa? How do Special Olympics work with football in Africa? How did people react to The Ball as it passed through their country? Find out here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Ball 2010 started on 24th Jan 2014 and travelled from England to the World Cup in South Africa. Made by <a href=\"http:\/\/aliveandkicking.org.uk\/\">Alive &amp; Kicking<\/a>, it was a durable, repairable football made especially for rough playing surfaces in Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last_para\"><a href=\"\/2010\/blog\/\">Follow its journey here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did Africa gear up for its first World Cup? Where was the first game in Africa? How do Special Olympics work with football in Africa? How did people react to The Ball as it passed through their country? Find out here. The Ball 2010 started on 24th Jan 2014 and travelled from England to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page_subpages_splash.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3232,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/3232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}