{"id":10863,"date":"2008-01-19T19:39:17","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T03:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2008\/01\/19\/hurling-camogie-shinty-bandy-a.html"},"modified":"2008-01-19T19:39:17","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T03:39:17","slug":"hurling-camogie-shinty-bandy-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2008\/01\/19\/hurling-camogie-shinty-bandy-a\/","title":{"rendered":"hurling, camogie, shinty, bandy, and cammag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hurling\">Hurling<\/a> is Ireland's second-most-popular sport (after <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gaelic_football\">Gaelic football<\/a>). It involves hitting a ball with a stick to score goals; I get the impression it's vaguely related to field hockey.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wikipedia, \"The earliest known recorded game of hurling is from times before Christ,\" and \"[h]urling is older than the recorded history of Ireland.\"<\/p>\n<p>There are apparently a bunch of similar and related games. For example, there's an Irish women's variant called \"<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Camogie\">camogie<\/a>.\" There's also a related Scottish game called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shinty\">shinty<\/a>, and a related British (?) game called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bandy\">bandy<\/a>; both shinty and bandy are ancestors of ice hockey. And there's another related game that was once very popular on the Isle of Man called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cammag\">cammag<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Encountered \"hurler\"--a hurling player--in a story submitted to <cite>SH<\/cite>.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurling is Ireland&#8217;s second-most-popular sport (after Gaelic football). It involves hitting a ball with a stick to score goals; I get the impression it&#8217;s vaguely related to field hockey. According&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}