{"id":11645,"date":"2023-09-23T09:38:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T07:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/23\/they-became-messi-juan-carlos-castanedas-best-phone-picture\/"},"modified":"2023-09-23T09:38:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T07:38:09","slug":"they-became-messi-juan-carlos-castanedas-best-phone-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/23\/they-became-messi-juan-carlos-castanedas-best-phone-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They became Messi\u2019: Juan Carlos Casta\u00f1eda\u2019s best phone picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sweltering day\u2019s work led the film-maker to a group of children with one goal in mind<\/p>\n<p>Given the unforgiving August heat, most people were keeping to the shade of the trees in a nearby plaza. These boys, however, were playing football with a foam buoy. Juan Carlos Casta\u00f1eda had sought out shade, too, and a bottle of water, having wrapped filming for the day. He was in Cit\u00e9 Soleil, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to shoot a short film on the community and its leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe kids in the picture were only 12, and they live in Haiti\u2019s poorest and most dangerous neighbourhood. None of them can afford proper shoes or a ball to play with \u2013 they\u2019re not even sure when they\u2019ll get their next meal,\u201d Casta\u00f1eda says. \u201cHowever, when they discovered this yellow buoy, they became Messi, scoring a goal in the World Cup and, just for a second, leaving the heaviness of their lives behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2023\/sep\/23\/juan-carlos-castaneda-best-phone-picture\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ab8f99b44e843465cc2adadc3a1f5fdabd723875\/0_54_2485_1491\/master\/2485.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=962eb5da3e29660e1afc701762fae869\" title=\"\u2018They became Messi\u2019: Juan Carlos Casta\u00f1eda\u2019s best phone picture\" \/>A sweltering day\u2019s work led the film-maker to a group of children with one goal in mind<br \/>\nGiven the unforgiving August heat, most people were keeping to the shade of the trees in a nearby plaza. These boys, however, were playing football with a foam buoy. Juan Carlos Casta\u00f1eda had sought out shade, too, and a bottle of water, having wrapped filming for the day. He was in Cit\u00e9 Soleil, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to shoot a short film on the community and its leaders.<br \/>\n\u201cThe kids in the picture were only 12, and they live in Haiti\u2019s poorest and most dangerous neighbourhood. None of them can afford proper shoes or a ball to play with \u2013 they\u2019re not even sure when they\u2019ll get their next meal,\u201d Casta\u00f1eda says. \u201cHowever, when they discovered this yellow buoy, they became Messi, scoring a goal in the World Cup and, just for a second, leaving the heaviness of their lives behind.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sweltering day\u2019s work led the film-maker to a group of children with one goal in mind Given the unforgiving August heat, most people were keeping to the shade of the trees in a nearby plaza. These boys, however, were playing football with a foam buoy. Juan Carlos Casta\u00f1eda had sought out shade, too, and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/23\/they-became-messi-juan-carlos-castanedas-best-phone-picture\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018They became Messi\u2019: Juan Carlos Casta\u00f1eda\u2019s best phone picture<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11645"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}