can't i add the googleapis.com script to the body?

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when its on head it takes almost 30second for google API to response, and the app is frozen on the meantime. can't i declare the script in the body?
I saw some solutions, maybe i can write a directive to inject it and instantiate it in the body, ie:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15058885/google-maps-api-map-initialise-script-in-body-not-head-map-not-appearing