{"id":363,"date":"2009-10-02T11:54:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T10:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/?p=363"},"modified":"2009-10-02T11:54:18","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T10:54:18","slug":"the-hurling-book-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/?p=363","title":{"rendered":"The Hurling Book Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-364\" href=\"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/?attachment_id=364\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-364\" title=\"heartbreakcover\" src=\"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/heartbreakcover-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"heartbreakcover\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/heartbreakcover-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/heartbreakcover-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/heartbreakcover.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>A title like Unlimited Heartbreak could just as easily apply to the story of Waterford hurling as it does to Limerick hurling. At least Limerick have won an All-Ireland within my lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I&#8217;m going to get a copy of that book and have a read.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anfearrua.com\" target=\"_blank\">An Fear Rua<\/a> is certainly impressed with it, saying that &#8220;every county should have a book as good as this dedicated to its sporting history. Fans  in other counties will envy Limerick&#8230; this book will scoop whatever awards are going this year for the best book on sports. It&#8217;s that good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>High praise indeed. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/DOCUME%7E1\/CONORP%7E1\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/moz-screenshot-2.png\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/DOCUME%7E1\/CONORP%7E1\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/moz-screenshot-3.png\" alt=\"\" \/>I only hope that that doesn&#8217;t set my expectations too high. It really is beginning to feel a lot like Christmas when the hurling books are being rolled out with such regularity.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMy Father: A Hurling Revolutionary, the life and times of Ned Power\u201d is out on paperback at the end of November 2009.\u00a0 <a href=\"..\/?page_id=17\">Click here<\/a> for further information, pre-order and excerpt.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A title like Unlimited Heartbreak could just as easily apply to the story of Waterford hurling as it does to Limerick hurling. At least Limerick have won an All-Ireland within my lifetime. In any case, I&#8217;m going to get a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/?p=363\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9kxa7-5R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}