{"id":2233,"date":"2013-01-16T13:42:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T13:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/2013\/01\/16\/on-the-ball-city-the-norwich-city-f-c-song-is\/"},"modified":"2016-05-02T15:12:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T14:12:24","slug":"on-the-ball-city-the-norwich-city-f-c-song-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/2013\/01\/16\/on-the-ball-city-the-norwich-city-f-c-song-is\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;On The Ball, City&#8221; the Norwich City F.C. song, is &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;On The Ball, City&#8221; the Norwich City F.C. song, is described as the world&#8217;s oldest football song still in use today:<\/p>\n<p>Kick off, throw in, have a little scrimmage,<br \/>\nKeep it low, a splendid rush, bravo, win or die;<br \/>\nOn the ball, City, never mind the danger,<br \/>\nSteady on, now&#8217;s your chance,<br \/>\nHurrah! We&#8217;ve scored a goal.<br \/>\nCity!, City!, City!<\/p>\n<div class=\"fbfpi_link\">\n<div class=\"fbfpi_text\">\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/On_the_Ball,_City\" target=\"_self\" title=\"&copy; en.wikipedia.org - On the Ball, City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\">On the Ball, City &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><small>en.wikipedia.org<\/small><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On The Ball, City&#8221; (sometimes abbreviated &#8216;OTBC&#8217; in writing), the Norwich City F.C. song, is described as the world&#8217;s oldest football song still in use today;[1][2] the song is in fact older than the club itself having probably been penned for Norwich Teachers or Caley&#8217;s FC in the 1890s, and used b&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;On The Ball, City&#8221; the Norwich City F.C. song, is described as the world&#8217;s oldest football song still in use today:<\/p>\n<p>Kick off, throw in, have a little scrimmage,<br \/>\nKeep it low, a splendid rush, bravo, win or die;<br \/>\nOn the ball, City, never mind the danger,<br \/>\nSteady on, now&#8217;s your chance,<br \/>\nHurrah! We&#8217;ve scored a goal.<br \/>\nCity!, City!, City!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"geo":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2234,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions\/2234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}