{"id":799,"date":"2010-02-19T11:04:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T11:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/?p=799"},"modified":"2020-10-26T14:16:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T14:16:05","slug":"the-rain-in-spain-falls-mostly-on-my-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/blog\/2010\/02\/19\/the-rain-in-spain-falls-mostly-on-my-head\/","title":{"rendered":"The rain in Spain falls mostly on my head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Scrambling out of bed, packing frantically and heading off to Alice&#8217;s school. A presentation to the school assembly followed by children signing The Ball and a kick-about in the gym&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned_image alignnone\" style=\"width: 640px\"><span id=\"attachment_800\"  class=\"wp-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/sp_malaga_school_sign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-800 size-full\" title=\"Children at the Laude school sign The Ball\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/sp_malaga_school_sign.jpg\" alt=\"Children at the Laude school sign The Ball\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/sp_malaga_school_sign.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/sp_malaga_school_sign-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/sp_malaga_school_sign-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/sp_malaga_school_sign-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/sp_malaga_school_sign-240x135.jpg 240w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/sp_malaga_school_sign-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/span><small class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children at the Laude school sign The Ball<\/small><\/div>\n<div class=\"captioned_image alignnone\" style=\"width: 640px\"><span id=\"attachment_857\"  class=\"wp-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/sp_malaga_school_team.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-857 size-full\" title=\"The team at the Laude school\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/sp_malaga_school_team.jpg\" alt=\"The team at the Laude school\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/sp_malaga_school_team.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/sp_malaga_school_team-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/sp_malaga_school_team-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/sp_malaga_school_team-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/sp_malaga_school_team-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/sp_malaga_school_team-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/span><small class=\"wp-caption-text\">The team at the Laude school<\/small><\/div>\n<p>And then off again. On the road: driving through driving rain once more. It has been raining constantly for more than 12 hours now. Avoiding enormous puddles and dirty water rushing down from the hills, we finally arrive at the ferry terminal in Algeciras. It&#8217;s finally time to leave Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scrambling out of bed, packing frantically and heading off to Alice&#8217;s school. A presentation to the school assembly followed by children signing The Ball and a kick-about in the gym&#8230; And then off again. On the road: driving through driving rain once more. It has been raining constantly for more than 12 hours now. Avoiding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[206,18,232],"tags":[226],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spain","category-the-ball","category-the-journey","tag-school-visit"],"geo":{"latitude":36.130527499999999463398125953972339630126953125,"longitude":-5.438232400000000410500433645211160182952880859375,"description":null},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/spain_andrew_target.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","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=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3435,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/3435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}