{"id":2809,"date":"2010-08-27T07:17:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T21:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=2809"},"modified":"2010-08-27T07:18:50","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T21:18:50","slug":"a-season-with-verona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=2809","title":{"rendered":"A Season With Verona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tfwbookclub.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2474\" title=\"tfwbookclub\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tfwbookclub.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tfwbookclub.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tfwbookclub-300x37.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now that I&#8217;ve finished off Stephen King&#8217;s <em>Under the Dome<\/em> I&#8217;m now going to head in a completely different direction for my next book.\u00a0 Next up is Tim Park&#8217;s football journal <em>A Season With Verona<\/em> which details the British author&#8217;s experience of spending a season following the club Hellas Verona and its supporters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I can&#8217;t say I know much about the club or the author but my understanding is that book explores football culture in Italy as well as providing insights into the country itself.\u00a0 This one came as a recommendation from <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/newkie_\">Newkie<\/a>.\u00a0 I think its a good time to read a book like this as we&#8217;re kicking off football season.\u00a0 In fact, by a stroke of good fortune, I managed to secure a couple of box tickets to the Brisbane Roar game tonight at Suncorp.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2810\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/aseasonwithverona.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2810\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2810\" title=\"aseasonwithverona\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/aseasonwithverona.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/aseasonwithverona.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/aseasonwithverona-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Season With Verona: Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusion, National Character and Goals<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Enjoy your weekend everyone and good luck to whichever team you support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I&#8217;ve finished off Stephen King&#8217;s Under the Dome I&#8217;m now going to head in a completely different direction for my next book.\u00a0 Next up is Tim Park&#8217;s football journal A Season With Verona which details the British author&#8217;s experience of spending a season following the club Hellas Verona and its supporters. I can&#8217;t &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,230],"tags":[2399,111,617,616],"class_list":["post-2809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-book-club","tag-book-club","tag-football","tag-hellas-verona","tag-italians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2812,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions\/2812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}