{"id":626,"date":"2010-02-04T18:14:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T18:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/?p=626"},"modified":"2020-10-26T14:26:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T14:26:18","slug":"i-feel-like-i-need-another-10-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/blog\/2010\/02\/04\/i-feel-like-i-need-another-10-days\/","title":{"rendered":"I feel like I need another 10 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/ball_in_clock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-632 size-full\" title=\"ball clock\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/ball_in_clock.jpg\" alt=\"ball clock\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/ball_in_clock.jpg 480w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/ball_in_clock-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/ball_in_clock-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/ball_in_clock-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/ball_in_clock-240x240.jpg 240w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/ball_in_clock-320x320.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>I feel like I need another 10 days to really be ready to travel but I have another 1.5 days.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Why does the taxman come calling in my weakest hour? Why does my roommate illegally download a psycho-thriller from the internet &#8212; and why does a lawyer in Berlin have to find out about it and bill me (my name is on the internet connection) a few days before the biggest trip of my life?<\/p>\n<p>Why do I suddenly just now realize the millions of little things that need to be taken care of? Why am I so disorganized? Ask my ex-wife \u2013- she\u2019s been telling me for years! Why is it so difficult to get a Nigerian visa? And why is it that I have to fall in love right before I leave?<\/p>\n<p>And, above all, how do I say goodbye to my most treasured friend, my 3.5-year-old son? What the hell am I actually doing, going on the road to the World Cup? Suddenly, I begin to appreciate how sorely I am going to miss my son and how impossible it is for him to understand my being gone.<\/p>\n<p>The doubts have been rising this last week: am I really going to be able to do this? Will I be able to keep the mosquitoes at bay? How am I going to be able to deal with the journey financially, physically, emotionally? What happens when I come back? Am I going to come back? What happens if I am attacked? How will I defend myself?<\/p>\n<p><em>Can a football really help me through those tricky situations?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like I need another 10 days to really be ready to travel but I have another 1.5 days. Why does the taxman come calling in my weakest hour? Why does my roommate illegally download a psycho-thriller from the internet &#8212; and why does a lawyer in Berlin have to find out about it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,18,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-germany-countries","category-the-ball","category-the-journey"],"geo":{"latitude":50.97823720000000236041159951128065586090087890625,"longitude":11.023192399999999224746716208755970001220703125,"description":null},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/ger_erfurt_andrew_officials.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","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=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3452,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/3452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}