{"id":130,"date":"2018-10-07T05:35:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T05:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/kenya2018\/?p=130"},"modified":"2018-10-11T07:29:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T07:29:35","slug":"our-time-in-muranga-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/kenya2018\/2018\/10\/07\/our-time-in-muranga-a-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Our time in Muranga: A poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Our time in Muranga has come to a close<\/strong><br \/>\nI write this on the road before we all doze<br \/>\n5,000 children have played cricket with us<br \/>\nNow on to Kisumu with 6hrs on the bus<\/p>\n<p>We have trained up new coaches in our time here<br \/>\nFreddie the youngster, a natural it&#8217;s quite clear<br \/>\nElijah: a repertoire of dance moves he did not lack<br \/>\nAnd Joseph who is never far from his rain Mac<\/p>\n<p>The week finished with a festival of cricket for all<br \/>\n16 teams present thanks to Coach Mathias and his alias Paul<br \/>\nA quiet man yet on the cricket field he loses it<br \/>\nSo much so that the team have re-named him the &#8220;ROGUE UNIT!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the cricket we have bonded as a team<br \/>\nA small rave for Elijah&#8217;s birthday &#8211; we created a scene<br \/>\nLuke dancing on a speaker and Kylie sent Ed spinning around<br \/>\nThe DJ still loving the Macarena 4th time round<\/p>\n<p>It is also worth mentioning our meals together<br \/>\nHungry yet happy faces waiting for what felt like forever<br \/>\nChris ordered lamb chops and roast potatoes<br \/>\nAnd received some goat and rice &#8211; this is Africa I suppose!<\/p>\n<p>A highlight this week was when a boy with difficulties socialising<br \/>\nBegan leading a relay team: I found it quite surprising<br \/>\nHe even helped us pack up our kit<br \/>\nWhen at the start of the session all he wanted to do was sit<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thankful for the opportunities with CWB<br \/>\nWith the times we share and the things we see<br \/>\nThere is no experience quite like it, that&#8217;s for sure<br \/>\nNow on to the second week, I can&#8217;t wait for more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our time in Muranga has come to a close I write this on the road&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/kenya2018\/2018\/10\/07\/our-time-in-muranga-a-poem\/\">Read the post<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our time in Muranga: A poem<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2,5],"tags":[10,9,8,7,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/kenya2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/kenya2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/kenya2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/kenya2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/kenya2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/kenya2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/kenya2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/kenya2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/kenya2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/kenya2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/kenya2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}