{"id":1613,"date":"2015-10-22T10:25:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T10:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2015-11-24T22:04:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T22:04:07","slug":"banter-at-the-back-page-122-nov-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banter.test\/banter-at-the-back-page-122-nov-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Banter at The Back Page (121, Nov 2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/\">Banter<\/a>\u00a0heads to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/the-back-page.com\/\">The Back Page<\/a>\u00a0in November for two nights of sports talks to celebrate the first year of good times at the Dublin 7 venue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/11039204_1085840898108332_6818606311744981304_o-630x419.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1614\" src=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/11039204_1085840898108332_6818606311744981304_o-630x419.jpg\" alt=\"11039204_1085840898108332_6818606311744981304_o-630x419\" width=\"630\" height=\"419\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A conversation with John Leonard<\/strong>\u00a0will take place on Thursday November 19.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/soberpaddy.com\/\">Dub-Sub Confidential<\/a>\u00a0is John\u2019s vivid, witty and searingly honest story of his life on and off the Gaelic football pitch. He was a talented goalkeeper who had the misfortune to reach his prime at the same time, and in the same county, as Stephen Cluxton. Unless something happened to Cluxton, Leonard was always going to be number two in the pecking order. Of course, it didn\u2019t help that Leonard had a problem with drink and drugs\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/8_1_47.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1615\" src=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/8_1_47.jpg\" alt=\"8_1_47\" width=\"645\" height=\"520\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A GAA memoir like no other on the book shelf this year, Dub Sub Confidential is about how Gaelic games collide with real life. A tale of what goes on in the dressing-room and on the training pitch when you\u2019re part of the GAA\u2019s biggest circus \u2013 and what happens when you come out the other side after partying hard as well as training hard for many years.<\/p>\n<p>Our second Banter at The Back Page is\u00a0<strong>Meet the Ghostwriters<\/strong>\u00a0on Friday November 20 when\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Vincent_Hogan\">Vincent Hogan<\/a>\u00a0joins us to talk about the art of sports ghostwriting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/typist_6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1616\" src=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/typist_6.jpg\" alt=\"typist_6\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll talk to him\u00a0about the trials, tribulations and, yes, triumphs of writing someone else\u2019s story from their point of view. What are the difficulties involved in getting inside someone head when they might not actually want you to be there? How easy is it to know when to pull back as well as push forward? What are the gigs these ghosts would love to do \u2013 and what are the ones they\u2019d run a million miles from. What\u2019s the secret of building a relationship with your subject? And what happens when the book is published and you\u2019re pushed out of the picture?<\/p>\n<p>Doors open both nights at 6.30pm, each event starts at 7pm and admission is free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banter\u00a0heads to\u00a0The Back Page\u00a0in November for two nights of sports talks to celebrate the first year of good times at the Dublin 7 venue. A conversation with John Leonard\u00a0will take place on Thursday November 19.\u00a0Dub-Sub Confidential\u00a0is John\u2019s vivid, witty and searingly honest story of his life on and off the Gaelic football pitch. He was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banter.test\/banter-at-the-back-page-122-nov-2015\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Banter at The Back Page (121, Nov 2015)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1686,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions\/1686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}