{"id":1566,"date":"2010-04-17T17:50:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T16:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2020-10-26T13:24:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T13:24:03","slug":"rendezvous-with-ancilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/blog\/2010\/04\/17\/rendezvous-with-ancilla\/","title":{"rendered":"Rendezvous with Ancilla"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few hours kip after that exhausting 46 hour train ride and we’re all set to meet up with Ancilla Smith, Special Olympics Africa’s football project manager, who has been tirelessly organizing their involvement in The Ball’s journey to Johannesburg for the best part of a year and a half.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Ancilla<\/a><\/span>Ancilla Smith of Special Olympics Africa<\/small><\/div>\n

She has flown in especially for the C\u00f4te d’Ivoire event because it is a premier programme in Africa for Special Olympics. The Ball is only in town for a few days but Charles Takouet and the folks at Special Olympics have put together an amazing schedule which leaves little time for anything else, sleep included. It all starts with a press conference at the Ministry of Sport.<\/p>\n

\"Press<\/a><\/span>Press conference at the Ministry of Sport<\/small><\/div>\n

Not being able to speak much French, Andrew leaves the talking to Phil. It’s hard to get across the essence of The Ball in a second language, but thankfully Phil’s explanation of The Ball and its mission seems to impress the Ivoirian journalists.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few hours kip after that exhausting 46 hour train ride and we’re all set to meet up with Ancilla Smith, Special Olympics Africa’s football project manager, who has been tirelessly organizing their involvement in The Ball’s journey to Johannesburg for the best part of a year and a half. She has flown in especially […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,18,232],"tags":[117,121,81,83,38],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cote-ivoire","category-the-ball","category-the-journey","tag-abidjan","tag-ancilla-smith","tag-ivory-coast","tag-press","tag-special-olympics"],"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_ancilla.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566","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=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3356,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions\/3356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}