{"id":2043,"date":"2010-05-23T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/?p=2043"},"modified":"2020-10-26T12:49:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T12:49:18","slug":"long-balls-in-longido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/blog\/2010\/05\/23\/long-balls-in-longido\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Balls in Longido"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alliy invites us to join his football training session. They are preparing for their big May-day football game at the weekend. Andrew joins in while Christian juggles on the sidelines with kids too young\/small to play in the game.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Mt<\/a><\/span>Mt Meru and the vast plains make for a spectacular backdrop.<\/small><\/div>\n

The Ball is played with for the first 10 minutes but it is deemed too flat and is traded for another football.<\/p>\n

\"Are<\/a><\/span>Are you hard enough? Apparently The Ball isn’t<\/small><\/div>\n

The other football pops after striking a thorn on the sidelines and The Ball is called back into action.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a><\/span>A rolling ball gathers no dust<\/small><\/div>\n

The practice session lasts long past the point where it’s possible to see the ball, but no-one seems to mind.<\/p>\n

\"At<\/a><\/span>At the end of the day, it’s a game of two halves<\/small><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alliy invites us to join his football training session. They are preparing for their big May-day football game at the weekend. Andrew joins in while Christian juggles on the sidelines with kids too young\/small to play in the game. The Ball is played with for the first 10 minutes but it is deemed too flat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,18,232],"tags":[229,159,161],"class_list":["post-2043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tanzania-countries","category-the-ball","category-the-journey","tag-football-club","tag-longido","tag-tanzania"],"geo":{"latitude":-2.715672000000000085861984189250506460666656494140625,"longitude":36.70267869999999987840055837295949459075927734375,"description":"Longido, Tanzania"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/tan_long_DSC01112.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043","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=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3308,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions\/3308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}