{"id":13486,"date":"2025-04-12T10:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T10:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/13486\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T10:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T10:23:11","slug":"fun-and-games-by-john-patrick-mchugh-book-review-why-does-watching-and-playing-games-of-minimal-real-world-consequence-bring-out-such-fury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/13486\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun and Games by John Patrick McHugh Book Review:\u00a0Why does watching and playing games of minimal real-world consequence bring out such fury?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">John Patrick McHugh explores importance of cameraderie in new novel writes James McNaney\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John Patrick McHugh\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/John_Patrick_McHugh.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">John Patrick McHugh<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Sport is totally consuming for the fan, and totally bewildering for the non-fan. Why does watching and playing games of minimal real-world consequence bring out such fury, such happiness, such bizarre irrationality?<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The bewildered outsider may benefit from reading Fun and Games, the debut novel from John Patrick McHugh, which is structured around a young man playing Gaelic football over the course of three months .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Patrick McHugh explores importance of cameraderie in new novel writes James McNaney John Patrick McHugh Sport is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,77,9085,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-13486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-james-mcnaney","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114324504804960199","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}