{"id":1431,"date":"2022-07-01T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T01:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2022-07-08T10:14:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T01:14:11","slug":"el%e6%9c%ac%e6%a3%9a%e7%b4%b9%e4%bb%8b54-the-illustrated-history-of-football-by-david-squires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/1431\/","title":{"rendered":"EL\u672c\u68da\u7d39\u4ecb(54) The Illustrated History of Football, by David Squires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[Welcome to the EL Book Introductions series. These posts are all short (<180 words) introductions\/reviews of books in the EL library. They focus on telling you what we think will be interesting for you, a college student and English learner, so use them to help you find the right book for you. You can also use the <\/em>tags<em> to find books about topics you might be interested in.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>_______<\/p>\n<p>Do you like football (or \u201csoccer\u201d in American English)? Or do you LOVE it? Football is not just a sport. For many people, it is an obsession or even a way of life. This book is written for football nerds (<em>otaku<\/em>), but it also makes fun of the various people, institutions, and events in football history.<\/p>\n<p>The book is made up of two-page chapters. The first page is 4-5 short paragraphs introducing a topic. The second page is a comic about the same topic. The writing often follows a pattern of mixing together true historical facts and jokes. Do not read this book expecting to learn a lot about the history of football; read it expecting to be entertained and <em>maybe<\/em> learn something about football. Because each chapter is so short, this is a good book to pick up, flip to a random page, and just read one chapter at a time.<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: Although there is no nudity or sex in this book, some of the jokes are crude or sexual.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My two cents:<\/strong> If you read carefully, you can definitely learn about British humor, which can be very different from American or Japanese humor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1572\" src=\"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/illustratedhistoryoffootball-203x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/illustratedhistoryoffootball-203x300.png 203w, https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/illustratedhistoryoffootball.png 419w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Welcome to the EL Book Introductions series. These posts are all short (<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,26,48,16,27],"class_list":["post-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-el-book-introductions","tag-comic-book","tag-humor","tag-nonfiction","tag-short-stories","tag-sports","item-wrap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1585,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions\/1585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}