{"id":991,"date":"2010-03-04T23:35:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T23:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/?p=991"},"modified":"2020-10-26T14:05:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T14:05:59","slug":"behind-the-scenes-laundry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/blog\/2010\/03\/04\/behind-the-scenes-laundry\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes: Laundry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The one thing we&#8217;ve been craving for weeks now is clean clothes. Unfortunately, we have yet to stay in one place long enough to do anything about it and we&#8217;re beginning to worry that we&#8217;ll embarrass ourselves and The Ball.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned_image alignnone\" style=\"width: 640px\"><span id=\"attachment_992\"  class=\"wp-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_casa_laundry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-992 size-full\" title=\"A laundry in Casablanca\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_casa_laundry.jpg\" alt=\"A laundry in Casablanca\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_casa_laundry.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_casa_laundry-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_casa_laundry-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_casa_laundry-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_casa_laundry-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_casa_laundry-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/span><small class=\"wp-caption-text\">A laundry in Casablanca<\/small><\/div>\n<p>Since leaving Erfurt, we&#8217;ve been staying only one night in most places. And it&#8217;s been raining almost continuously. Which is fine, unless it&#8217;s clean clothes that you need. No time to dry anything &#8212; and not much hope of doing so if the only option is to hang them on a line.<\/p>\n<p>And then we arrive in Casablanca. Nicole and Lisa meet us at the football stadium &#8212; they have just come from a laundry, they say.<br \/>\n&#8220;<em>A laundry?<\/em> What, with <em>a tumble-dryer<\/em>?&#8221; we cry.<br \/>\n&#8220;Yes, with a tumble-drier&#8230;&#8221; they reply.<br \/>\nOh. Joy. Unconfined.<\/p>\n<p>The laundry&#8217;s name? <em>Pressing Lavage.<\/em> How apt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The one thing we&#8217;ve been craving for weeks now is clean clothes. Unfortunately, we have yet to stay in one place long enough to do anything about it and we&#8217;re beginning to worry that we&#8217;ll embarrass ourselves and The Ball. Since leaving Erfurt, we&#8217;ve been staying only one night in most places. And it&#8217;s been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207,18,232],"tags":[59,64,69],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-morocco-countries","category-the-ball","category-the-journey","tag-behind-the-scenes","tag-casablanca","tag-laundry"],"geo":{"latitude":33.60538100000000127920429804362356662750244140625,"longitude":-7.63194890000000025764848032849840819835662841796875,"description":"Casa, Morocco"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_casa_laundry.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","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=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3415,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/3415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}