{"id":1446,"date":"2010-04-08T22:48:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T21:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2020-10-26T13:30:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T13:30:05","slug":"some-things-are-set-in-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/blog\/2010\/04\/08\/some-things-are-set-in-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Some things are set in stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We have a little free time today, so Special Olympics arrange a visit for us to a renowned local attraction &#8212; the Laongo Sculpture Park, a little way out of Ouagadougou.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned_image alignnone\" style=\"width: 640px\"><span id=\"attachment_1447\"  class=\"wp-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/burkina_granite_girls.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1447 size-full\" title=\"The girls from Special Olympics Burkina Faso\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/burkina_granite_girls.jpg\" alt=\"The girls from Special Olympics Burkina Faso\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/burkina_granite_girls.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/burkina_granite_girls-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/burkina_granite_girls-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/burkina_granite_girls-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/burkina_granite_girls-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/burkina_granite_girls-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/span><small class=\"wp-caption-text\">The girls from Special Olympics Burkina Faso<\/small><\/div>\n<p>There are many wonderful sculptures to be found dotted about in the bush, but this one seemed particularly appropriate for The Ball. Foot Ball.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned_image alignnone\" style=\"width: 640px\"><span id=\"attachment_1448\"  class=\"wp-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/burkina_granite_foot_ball.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1448 size-full\" title=\"Foot Ball\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/burkina_granite_foot_ball.jpg\" alt=\"Foot Ball\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/burkina_granite_foot_ball.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/burkina_granite_foot_ball-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/burkina_granite_foot_ball-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/burkina_granite_foot_ball-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/burkina_granite_foot_ball-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/burkina_granite_foot_ball-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/span><small class=\"wp-caption-text\">Foot Ball<\/small><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a little free time today, so Special Olympics arrange a visit for us to a renowned local attraction &#8212; the Laongo Sculpture Park, a little way out of Ouagadougou. There are many wonderful sculptures to be found dotted about in the bush, but this one seemed particularly appropriate for The Ball. Foot Ball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211,18,232],"tags":[85,114,115],"class_list":["post-1446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-burkina-faso-countries","category-the-ball","category-the-journey","tag-burkina-faso","tag-laongo","tag-sculpture-park"],"geo":{"latitude":12.7314424999999999954525264911353588104248046875,"longitude":-1.6149902000000000423796109316754154860973358154296875,"description":"Oubritenga, Burkina Faso"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/burkina_granite_foot_ball.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3365,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions\/3365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}