{"id":1563,"date":"2013-09-23T09:24:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T08:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2013-09-23T20:02:45","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T19:02:45","slug":"match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/2013\/09\/23\/match\/","title":{"rendered":"match?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"booktitle\">I Am The Secret Footballer<\/p>\n<div id=\"author\">The Secret Footballer<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"bookentry\"><span id=\"pulloutr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/i-am-the-secret-footballer-lifting-the-lid-on-the-beautiful-game-93x150.jpg\" alt=\"i-am-the-secret-footballer-lifting-the-lid-on-the-beautiful-game\" width=\"93\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/i-am-the-secret-footballer-lifting-the-lid-on-the-beautiful-game-93x150.jpg 93w, https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/i-am-the-secret-footballer-lifting-the-lid-on-the-beautiful-game-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/i-am-the-secret-footballer-lifting-the-lid-on-the-beautiful-game.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 93px) 100vw, 93px\" \/><\/span>I followed the Secret Footballer column on the Guardian website for a while so when this turned up in the 99p Kindle daily deal on the Amazon website I couldn&#8217;t resist getting it.<br \/>\nI read this in dribs and drabs over months when I needed to kill time and I only had my phone to hand to entertain me.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s an entertaining and decently written insight to the life of modern top level footballers with just enough self awareness to stop the author from seeming massively entitled. It&#8217;s still irritating in places when he talks about the obscene behaviours of his fellow professionals, especially with regard to women, but since this feels like honest reporting it&#8217;s not enough to put you off.<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re a football fan then it&#8217;s definitely worth splashing out 99p on this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bookrating\">Rating: B<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Am The Secret Footballer The Secret Footballer I followed the Secret Footballer column on the Guardian website for a while so when this turned up in the 99p Kindle daily deal on the Amazon website I couldn&#8217;t resist getting it. I read this in dribs and drabs over months when I needed to kill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,22,2,66,44,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-b","category-books","category-ebook","category-football","category-rated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1574,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}