{"id":865,"date":"2010-02-26T09:28:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T09:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/?p=865"},"modified":"2020-10-26T14:14:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T14:14:28","slug":"where-your-allegiances-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/blog\/2010\/02\/26\/where-your-allegiances-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Where your allegiances lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Hotel Barcelona, one would assume, in a football-mad town like Chefchaouen, might have some football connection. It does.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned_image alignnone\" style=\"width: 640px\"><span id=\"attachment_866\"  class=\"wp-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/mor_chef_barca_madrid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-866 size-full\" title=\"Mohammed at the Hotel Barcelona\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/mor_chef_barca_madrid.jpg\" alt=\"Mohammed at the Hotel Barcelona\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/mor_chef_barca_madrid.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/mor_chef_barca_madrid-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/mor_chef_barca_madrid-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/mor_chef_barca_madrid-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/mor_chef_barca_madrid-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/mor_chef_barca_madrid-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/span><small class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mohammed at the Hotel Barcelona<\/small><\/div>\n<p>Mohammed, the hotel manager loves his football. His eyes lit up when he saw The Ball.<br \/>\n&#8220;You must be a Barcelona fan,&#8221; I suggested, looking at the poster of FC Barcelona on the wall.<br \/>\n&#8220;No. No. No,&#8221; came the reply. And promptly off came his djelleba to reveal a Real Madrid sweater. &#8220;I am Real Madrid.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;How can you work at Hotel Barcelona?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;My dream is to work at Hotel Madrid,&#8221; he smiled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hotel Barcelona, one would assume, in a football-mad town like Chefchaouen, might have some football connection. It does. Mohammed, the hotel manager loves his football. His eyes lit up when he saw The Ball. &#8220;You must be a Barcelona fan,&#8221; I suggested, looking at the poster of FC Barcelona on the wall. &#8220;No. No. No,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207,18,232],"tags":[46,229,54],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-morocco-countries","category-the-ball","category-the-journey","tag-barcelona","tag-football-club","tag-real-madrid"],"geo":{"latitude":35.169010200000002441811375319957733154296875,"longitude":-5.26194670000000019882691049133427441120147705078125,"description":null},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/mor_chefchaouen.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","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=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3431,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/3431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}