{"id":923,"date":"2010-02-28T22:57:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T22:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/?p=923"},"modified":"2020-10-26T14:11:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T14:11:27","slug":"its-not-about-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/blog\/2010\/02\/28\/its-not-about-football\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not about football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We bumped into Nathaniel in Fez &#8212; an American nomad who renews his European visas by nipping over to Morocco every six months. Schengen doesn&#8217;t do him as many favours as it does us Europeans.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned_image alignnone\" style=\"width: 640px\"><span id=\"attachment_924\"  class=\"wp-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/mor_fez_nathaniel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-924 size-full\" title=\"Nathaniel with Fez medina in the background\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/mor_fez_nathaniel.jpg\" alt=\"Nathaniel with Fez medina in the background\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/mor_fez_nathaniel.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/mor_fez_nathaniel-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/mor_fez_nathaniel-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/mor_fez_nathaniel-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/mor_fez_nathaniel-240x135.jpg 240w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/mor_fez_nathaniel-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/span><small class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathaniel with Fez medina in the background<\/small><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t like football. I don&#8217;t even watch it,&#8221; he told us. &#8220;But your project is not about football. It&#8217;s The Ball, but it&#8217;s more about travel and play.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We bumped into Nathaniel in Fez &#8212; an American nomad who renews his European visas by nipping over to Morocco every six months. Schengen doesn&#8217;t do him as many favours as it does us Europeans. &#8220;I don&#8217;t like football. I don&#8217;t even watch it,&#8221; he told us. &#8220;But your project is not about football. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207,18,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-morocco-countries","category-the-ball","category-the-journey"],"geo":{"latitude":34.059982300000001487205736339092254638671875,"longitude":-4.970455199999999962301444611512124538421630859375,"description":null},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/mor_fez_nathaniel.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","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=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3424,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions\/3424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}