{"id":2188,"date":"2010-06-03T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T07:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/?p=2188"},"modified":"2020-10-26T12:28:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T12:28:23","slug":"the-presidents-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/blog\/2010\/06\/03\/the-presidents-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"The President&#8217;s Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"captioned_image alignnone\" style=\"width: 640px\"><span id=\"attachment_2217\"  class=\"wp-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/zam_DSC02497.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2217 size-full\" title=\"President's Ball\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/zam_DSC02497.jpg\" alt=\"President Rupiah Banda signs The Ball at State House in Lusaka\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/zam_DSC02497.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/zam_DSC02497-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/zam_DSC02497-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/zam_DSC02497-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/zam_DSC02497-240x135.jpg 240w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/zam_DSC02497-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/span><small class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Rupiah Banda signs The Ball at State House in Lusaka<\/small><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are very happy that young people thought of this idea of taking The Ball around Africa. It makes us all feel part of the game. Today was the worst day you could have come to State House. We have cancelled all of the things before and after your visit. All of my ministers are here with many things to do. But we thought that it was so important, that we must attend to this.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212; Rupiah Banda, President of Zambia<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We are very happy that young people thought of this idea of taking The Ball around Africa. It makes us all feel part of the game. Today was the worst day you could have come to State House. We have cancelled all of the things before and after your visit. All of my ministers are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,232,223],"tags":[44,180,184,119,179],"class_list":["post-2188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-ball","category-the-journey","category-zambia-countries","tag-ambassador","tag-lusaka","tag-president","tag-world-cup","tag-zambia"],"geo":{"latitude":-15.40819259999999957244654069654643535614013671875,"longitude":28.28716659999999905039658187888562679290771484375,"description":"Lusaka, Zambia"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/06\/zambia_president_dhl_elijah.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188","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=2188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3281,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions\/3281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}