{"id":92,"date":"2014-04-12T12:45:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T12:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/?p=92"},"modified":"2014-04-12T12:48:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T12:48:48","slug":"day-of-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/2014\/04\/12\/day-of-departure\/","title":{"rendered":"Day of Departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/files\/2014\/04\/image.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Packed and Ready\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-93\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/files\/2014\/04\/image-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/files\/2014\/04\/image-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/files\/2014\/04\/image.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>April 12th has finally arrived and you can see from the pic above I am ready to depart and meet the other volunteers at Heathrow.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em\">In addition to the huge bag of kit I have have included some kit in my luggage from the two best teams I&#039;ve played for, a Jumper from Cirencester cricket Club and the much adored cream and maroon hat from the Sarcen Riffs.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhilst all the team will blog and share their adventure I thought it would be interesting to follow the trip from another point of view: the humble tennis ball. The tennis ball is the single piece of kit that we couldn&#039;t do without, the kids love them. All the bats, cones and stumps in the world would be useless without&nbsp;a ball.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSo I have selected three lucky balls who&#039;s journey I will track over the next week.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe ball on the left will be known as Chris, the orange ball in the middle Mike and the ball on the right Tim. It&#039;s fair to say none of you will be coming home, maybe one will get pinched, hit on a roof,&nbsp;lost in long grass or donated to the bowler of the day. I will attempt to collect the balls back in at the end of each day, there is no guarantee you will make it.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTime to get on the tube to Heathrow, more blogs and tennis ball adventures to follow. Tom\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 12th has finally arrived and you can see from the pic above I am ready to depart and meet the other volunteers at Heathrow. In addition to the huge bag of kit I have have included some kit in my luggage from the two best teams I&#039;ve played for, a Jumper from Cirencester cricket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}