{"id":452,"date":"2009-11-05T00:04:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T23:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/?p=452"},"modified":"2009-11-05T00:04:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T23:04:32","slug":"gaa-books-and-hurling-books-in-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"GAA Books and Hurling Books in Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was time when <strong>hurling books<\/strong> and <strong>GAA books<\/strong> were all about snippets of reminiscences of the good old glory days of one team or another or some player or <strong>group of players<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing wrong with that.\u00a0 There are still books like that coming out.\u00a0 Even the one about <strong>Ned Power <\/strong>is a little bit like that in many ways.\u00a0 The <strong>GAA<\/strong> itself brought out a coffee table <strong>book <\/strong>of many images recently too.<\/p>\n<p>But nowadays, the tendency is for the &#8220;<strong>tell-all&#8221; book<\/strong>; the one that reveals something <strong>spectacular<\/strong>, something <strong>sensational<\/strong>, something <strong>controversial<\/strong> that will have the head honchos in <strong>Croke Park<\/strong> bristling and the ladies in every parish <strong>blessing themselves<\/strong> while the gentlemen hang their heads and tut them over and back in <strong>disbelief <\/strong>and disgrace.<\/p>\n<p>But are these books saying <strong>anything worthwhile? <\/strong> Yes, and no, I suppose. It&#8217;s all down to how sincerely and <strong>entertainingly <\/strong>the thing is <strong>written<\/strong>. The novelty wears off and you soon see what you&#8217;re left with.\u00a0 Just don&#8217;t judge a book by its cover.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"..\/?page_id=17\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click here\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Front-cover-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Front cover\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a>\u201c<strong>My Father: A Hurling Revolutionary, the life and times of Ned Power<\/strong>\u201d is out on paperback at the end of November 2009.\u00a0 <a href=\"..\/?page_id=17\">Click here<\/a> for further information, <a href=\"..\/?page_id=17\" target=\"_self\"><strong>pre-order<\/strong><\/a> and excerpt.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was time when hurling books and GAA books were all about snippets of reminiscences of the good old glory days of one team or another or some player or group of players. There&#8217;s nothing wrong with that.\u00a0 There are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/?p=452\">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-452","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\/p9kxa7-7i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","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=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}