{"id":1560,"date":"2010-04-17T17:30:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T16:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2020-10-26T13:24:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T13:24:23","slug":"sweat-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/blog\/2010\/04\/17\/sweat-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweat box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Dropping down from Burkina Faso on that agonizingly long train ride, one cannot help but notice the change in climate. It was 40 plus degrees in Ouagadougou but a very dry heat and surprisingly manageable. Abidjan&#8217;s temperature by comparison is mid thirties and stiflingly humid; one starts to sweat just thinking about going outside.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned_image alignnone\" style=\"width: 640px\"><span id=\"attachment_1562\"  class=\"wp-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/ivory_phil_sweats.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1562 size-full\" title=\"Phil rehydrating at night\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/ivory_phil_sweats.jpg\" alt=\"Phil rehydrating at night\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/ivory_phil_sweats.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/ivory_phil_sweats-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/ivory_phil_sweats-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/ivory_phil_sweats-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/ivory_phil_sweats-240x135.jpg 240w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/ivory_phil_sweats-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/span><small class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phil rehydrating at night<\/small><\/div>\n<p>We are soaked through, while all around us are locals, used to the conditions and looking very comfortable &#8212; even wearing suits and ties and not a bead of sweat to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Get used to it&#8221;, says Charles Takouet from Special Olympics, &#8220;Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria and Cameroon are all going to be the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Stinky, sweaty boys on tour!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dropping down from Burkina Faso on that agonizingly long train ride, one cannot help but notice the change in climate. It was 40 plus degrees in Ouagadougou but a very dry heat and surprisingly manageable. Abidjan&#8217;s temperature by comparison is mid thirties and stiflingly humid; one starts to sweat just thinking about going outside. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,18,232],"tags":[117,59,81],"class_list":["post-1560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cote-ivoire","category-the-ball","category-the-journey","tag-abidjan","tag-behind-the-scenes","tag-ivory-coast"],"geo":{"latitude":5.3363890999999998854264049441553652286529541015625,"longitude":-4.0266666000000004288494892534799873828887939453125,"description":"Abidjan, C\u00f4te d'Ivoire"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/ivory_phil_sweats.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560","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=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3357,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions\/3357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}