{"id":45660,"date":"2022-06-22T08:06:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T23:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/22\/love-of-the-irish-why-are-gaelic-games-so-popular-in-asia"},"modified":"2022-06-22T08:06:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T23:06:53","slug":"love-of-the-irish-why-are-gaelic-games-so-popular-in-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45660","title":{"rendered":"Love of the Irish: why are Gaelic games so popular in Asia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hurling, camogie and other sports have pushed into places like Thailand and Vietnam, where players find them inclusive<\/p>\n<p>In a floodlit field, 20 women run the length of a pitch kicking, bouncing and passing the ball in a game of Gaelic football. Sweating it out, players with more experience \u201cbuddy up\u201d with new members to show them the basic skills before they take to the pitch. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a weekday training session much like any other, except that it\u2019s taking place in the humidity of Bangkok, where Gaelic games \u2013 including hurling, handball, rounders, and camogie \u2013 are surging in popularity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/22\/love-of-the-irish-why-are-gaelic-games-so-popular-in-asia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurling, camogie and other sports have pushed into places like Thailand and Vietnam, where players find them inclusiveIn a floodlit field, 20 women run the length of a pitch kicking, bouncing and passing the ball in a game of Gaelic football. Sweating &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,361,579,783,203,93,430],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cambodia","category-ireland","category-singapore","category-sport","category-thailand","category-vietnam"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45661,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45660\/revisions\/45661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}