{ "items": [ { "type": [ "h-entry" ], "properties": { "_id": [ 6922 ], "url": [ "https://macdaraconroy.com/2016/03/elsewhere_my_goodreads_review_of_my_life_in_wrestling_with_a_little_help_from_my_friends_by_gary_har/" ], "uid": [ "https://macdaraconroy.com/2016/03/elsewhere_my_goodreads_review_of_my_life_in_wrestling_with_a_little_help_from_my_friends_by_gary_har/" ], "author": [ { "type": "MacDara Conroy", "properties": { "name": [ "MacDara Conroy" ], "url": [ "https://macdaraconroy.com/author/macdara/" ], "photo": [ "http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/37167652532c121404900106c4b087d9?s=96&d=mm&r=g" ] } } ], "published": [ "2016-03-30T17:44:47+01:00" ], "updated": [ "2017-01-19T14:51:32+00:00" ], "content": [ { "html": "
Reblogged from my Goodreads list:
\n\n\n\n", "value": "Reblogged from my Goodreads list:\n\n\n \"Now - I\u2019m not down on wrestling fans, but fans don\u2019t know what they want. They shouldn\u2019t know. That\u2019s not their job. Their job is to come and be entertained - and hopefully be tricked - so they\u2019re elated with adrenaline rushing through their body.\"\n \n Now there's a distinct whiff of bullshit from many of Gary Hart's words in this memoir of his life and times as a wrestling manager in the territory days, and later in the Crockett/Turner NWA. It's impossible to escape the notion that the reader is constantly being worked, as he contradicts himself from page to page as the circumstances demand.\n \n But every now and then there's a glimpse of wisdom that stands out for its crystal clarity. And it's those, as well as the general entertainment value of reading Hart tell his stories no matter how much he might be kayfabing you, that make this worth seeking out for any dyed-in-the-wool wrestling fan." } ], "summary": [ "Reblogged from my Goodreads list: “Now – I\u2019m not down on wrestling fans, but fans don\u2019t know what they want. They shouldn\u2019t know. That\u2019s not their job. Their job is to come and be entertained – and hopefully be tricked – so they\u2019re elated with adrenaline rushing through their body.” Now there’s a distinct whiff […]" ], "category": [ "Words" ] } } ] }\"Now - I\u2019m not down on wrestling fans, but fans don\u2019t know what they want. They shouldn\u2019t know. That\u2019s not their job. Their job is to come and be entertained - and hopefully be tricked - so they\u2019re elated with adrenaline rushing through their body.\"
\n \nNow there's a distinct whiff of bullshit from many of Gary Hart's words in this memoir of his life and times as a wrestling manager in the territory days, and later in the Crockett/Turner NWA. It's impossible to escape the notion that the reader is constantly being worked, as he contradicts himself from page to page as the circumstances demand.
\n \nBut every now and then there's a glimpse of wisdom that stands out for its crystal clarity. And it's those, as well as the general entertainment value of reading Hart tell his stories no matter how much he might be kayfabing you, that make this worth seeking out for any dyed-in-the-wool wrestling fan.
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