{"id":115,"date":"2008-09-10T09:58:20","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T09:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritoffootball.com\/2010\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2010-08-25T12:15:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T11:15:01","slug":"alive-and-kicking-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/blog\/2008\/09\/10\/alive-and-kicking-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Alive and Kicking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re very proud to announce that The Ball for 2010 will be made by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aliveandkicking.org.uk\/\">Alive &amp; Kicking<\/a> in South Africa. This amazing project makes cheap, tough, repairable footballs, netballs and volleyballs, using African skills and African leather. Each carries a message about HIV\/AIDS and malaria.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2010\/ball\/the_ball_2010_320.jpg\" alt=\"The current look of The Ball 2010 made by Alive and Kicking in South Africa\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Ball 2010 will be &#8220;an African ball made for the poorest African communities &#8211; the very embodiment of development through football in Africa.&#8221; says James Flecker of Alive &amp; Kicking.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sfcg.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/alive-and-kicking.jpg\" alt=\"Senator Barack Obama inspecting an Alive and Kicking ball during a recent visit to Kenya\" \/><br \/>\nBarack Obama inspecting an Alive &amp; Kicking ball in Kenya<\/p>\n<p>Please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aliveandkicking.org.uk\/Donate.html\">Alive &amp; Kicking&#8217;s donations page<\/a> where you can donate an ball to a community that will appreciate it more than you can imagine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re very proud to announce that The Ball for 2010 will be made by Alive &amp; Kicking in South Africa. This amazing project makes cheap, tough, repairable footballs, netballs and volleyballs, using African skills and African leather. Each carries a message about HIV\/AIDS and malaria. The Ball 2010 will be &#8220;an African ball made for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-ball"],"geo":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}