{"id":2424,"date":"2023-08-07T22:06:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T04:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/?p=2424"},"modified":"2023-08-07T22:06:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T04:06:45","slug":"exploring-the-ancient-ballgame-ulama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/07\/exploring-the-ancient-ballgame-ulama\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the Ancient Ballgame \u201cUlama\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Walking around downtown Cancun, Mexico, we came upon a ballfield on which a group of men and boys with painted bodies and leather loincloths was playing a very odd game of ball. They hit a heavy rubber ball by bumping it with their hips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Exploring the Ancient Ballgame \u201cUlama\u201d\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Lba2vJdTDY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We learned from a knowledgeable spectator that the game was Ulama, a descendant of a 3,500-year-old pre-Colombian game called\u00a0Ullamaliztli that was popular among the Mayan and Aztec people. Today, Ulama is only practiced in four small towns of the state of Sinaloa in Mexico. But it\u2019s making a comeback!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was fascinating!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LINKS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blog\/post\/edit\/9181503609429467230\/7352982084476679660\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">About Ulama<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blog\/post\/edit\/9181503609429467230\/7352982084476679660\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ulama Making a Comeback<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blog\/post\/edit\/9181503609429467230\/7352982084476679660\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Map<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking around downtown Cancun, Mexico, we came upon a ballfield on which a group of men and boys with painted bodies and leather loincloths was playing a very odd game of ball. They hit a heavy rubber ball by bumping it with their hips. We learned from a knowledgeable spectator that the game was Ulama, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/07\/exploring-the-ancient-ballgame-ulama\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exploring the Ancient Ballgame \u201cUlama\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[407,222,13,211],"tags":[617,623,603,410,612,610,624,27,4,9,261,262,622,616,611],"class_list":["post-2424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-lisa-blogger","category-mexico","category-videos","tag-archaeology","tag-aztec","tag-cancun","tag-history","tag-maya","tag-mayan","tag-mesoamerican","tag-messysuitcase","tag-mexico","tag-retirement","tag-travelblog","tag-travelblogger","tag-ulama","tag-yucatan","tag-yucatanpeninsula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2425,"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions\/2425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}