{"id":1576,"date":"2010-04-23T17:50:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T16:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/?p=1576"},"modified":"2020-10-26T13:21:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T13:21:39","slug":"contemplation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/blog\/2010\/04\/23\/contemplation\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemplation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Phil has gone, his flight left at 2am this morning. Now I am all alone, just me and The Ball. It is going to be hard trying to take care of everything now: filming, taking photos, writing, organizing&#8230; and trying to keep the German taxman off my back.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned_image alignnone\" style=\"width: 640px\"><span id=\"attachment_1592\"  class=\"wp-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/ivory_beach_goal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1592 size-full\" title=\" A solitary goal\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/ivory_beach_goal.jpg\" alt=\" A solitary goal\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/ivory_beach_goal.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/ivory_beach_goal-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/ivory_beach_goal-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/ivory_beach_goal-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/ivory_beach_goal-240x135.jpg 240w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/04\/ivory_beach_goal-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/span><small class=\"wp-caption-text\">A solitary goal<\/small><\/div>\n<p>There is so much to do on such a journey that there is often little time for anything else. In fact, on the whole trip thus far, we have not had one big night out on the town. And you are talking about 3 lads that enjoy good old-fashioned knees up and are unlikely to ever turn down an opportunity. The Ball dictates this hard schedule but it is worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil has gone, his flight left at 2am this morning. Now I am all alone, just me and The Ball. It is going to be hard trying to take care of everything now: filming, taking photos, writing, organizing&#8230; and trying to keep the German taxman off my back. There is so much to do on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,18,232],"tags":[117,59,81,90],"class_list":["post-1576","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","tag-travel"],"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_beach_goal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3353,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions\/3353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}