{"id":124,"date":"2009-08-17T15:33:58","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T15:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritoffootball.com\/2010\/blog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2010-01-19T10:55:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T10:55:55","slug":"a-look-at-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/blog\/2009\/08\/17\/a-look-at-morocco\/","title":{"rendered":"A look at Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smallhousedesign.co.uk\/\"> Al Mole<\/a>, a good friend of The Ball, told us about his recent foray to Morocco:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2010\/morocco\/al_mole\/oukaimeden_pitch.jpg\" alt=\"An open goal in Morocco, photographed by Al Mole\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We drove up to this god forsaken place called Oukaimeden, about 3000 metres above sea level in the Toubkal Atlas, near the highest peak in Northern Africa apparently. It&#8217;s a ski resort for about 6 weeks of the year, the rest of the time it&#8217;s a ghost town inhabited by a handful of Berbers it seems &#8211; I was expecting to see ski lifts and Pistes, but instead there&#8217;s a football pitch right up on the side of the mountain. What you might call an open goal!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2010\/morocco\/al_mole\/essaouira_pitch.jpg\" alt=\"Football on the beach in Essaouira, photographed by Al Mole\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We also came across Sunday league football in Essaouira &#8211; they&#8217;re all kitted up with refs and trophies and stuff, but but they mark out a pitch on the sands when the tide&#8217;s out and bung a couple of goals in and the crowd all sit on the sea wall and watch. Kick off times depend on the tide!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Mole, a good friend of The Ball, told us about his recent foray to Morocco: We drove up to this god forsaken place called Oukaimeden, about 3000 metres above sea level in the Toubkal Atlas, near the highest peak in Northern Africa apparently. It&#8217;s a ski resort for about 6 weeks of the year, [&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-124","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\/124","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=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}