{"id":2610,"date":"2012-09-04T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/2012\/09\/04\/excellent-balls-and-you-can-now-buy-them-in\/"},"modified":"2016-05-02T15:16:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T14:16:02","slug":"excellent-balls-and-you-can-now-buy-them-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/2012\/09\/04\/excellent-balls-and-you-can-now-buy-them-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellent balls&#8230; and you can now buy them in &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent balls&#8230; and you can now buy them in England! <\/p>\n<p>For each ball bought in John Lewis another will be donated to a youth or schools project in Kenya. <\/p>\n<p>I know they are good because the non profit Spirit of Football took one overland from London to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Thousands of people played with it over an intensive 5 months. It was repaired four times with 7 patches and one bladder being replaced. A testament to Alive and Kicking&#8217;s quality production in Africa. Good luck to them on their next factory in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about Spirit of Football at     theball.tv.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fbfpi_link\">\n<div class=\"fbfpi_image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/news\/newsfocus\/910220-alive-kicking-providing-footballs-jobs-and-aids-awareness-in-africa\" target=\"_self\" title=\"&copy; metro.co.uk - Alive &#038; Kicking: Providing footballs, jobs and AIDS awareness in Africa\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/05\/fbfpi_18f7d6d144297a61adbb6f4ab604fe66.jpg\" title=\"&copy; metro.co.uk - Alive &#038; Kicking: Providing footballs, jobs and AIDS awareness in Africa\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"fbfpi_text\">\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/news\/newsfocus\/910220-alive-kicking-providing-footballs-jobs-and-aids-awareness-in-africa\" target=\"_self\" title=\"&copy; metro.co.uk - Alive &#038; Kicking: Providing footballs, jobs and AIDS awareness in Africa\">Alive &#038; Kicking: Providing footballs, jobs and AIDS awareness in Africa<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><small>metro.co.uk<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Alive &#038; Kicking is a British charity providing jobs and health education in Africa, all through the humble football. Metro talks to those behind it as<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent balls&#8230; and you can now buy them in England! <\/p>\n<p>For each ball bought in John Lewis another will be donated to a youth or schools project in Kenya. <\/p>\n<p>I know they are good because the non profit Spirit of Football took one overland from London to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Thousands of people played with it over an intensive 5 months. It was repaired four times with 7 patches and one bladder being replaced. A testament to Alive and Kicking&#8217;s quality production in Africa. Good luck to them on their next factory in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about Spirit of Football at     theball.tv.<\/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-2610","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\/2610","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=2610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2612,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions\/2612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}