{"id":209240,"date":"2025-12-24T21:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/209240\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T21:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:41:10","slug":"chloe-finds-a-hobby-after-a-year-of-hobby-hunting-here-are-my-best-and-worst-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/209240\/","title":{"rendered":"Chlo\u00eb finds a hobby: After a year of hobby hunting, here are my best and worst of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Having spent a year looking for a pastime that sticks, Chlo\u00eb McPolin recalls the ones she loved \u2013 and the ones she will not be trying again<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chlo\u00eb McPolin's search for a hobby included bell ringing, trips to Mondello Park and Perpetua, kayaking and trying Aikido. Photos: Gerry Mooney\/Steve Humphreys\/Frank McGrath\/Tom Honan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hloe Hobbies 2712v2.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Chlo\u00eb McPolin&#8217;s search for a hobby included bell ringing, trips to Mondello Park and Perpetua, kayaking and trying Aikido. Photos: Gerry Mooney\/Steve Humphreys\/Frank McGrath\/Tom Honan<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Hobby comrades, the end of the year is upon us, so it\u2019s high time for a bit of self-reflection on our pursuits over the past 12 months. It has been almost one year since I began this insatiable hobby quest. I have tried around 37 in total.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Now, I know what you might be thinking: how on earth has she not found a hobby yet? Well, I actually think I may have found one, but I\u2019ll reveal my findings in due course. I thought it would be helpful to do a year-round-up and rank my hobbies from best to worst. Almost like a Spotify Wrapped. Hobbies Wrapped, if you will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having spent a year looking for a pastime that sticks, Chlo\u00eb McPolin recalls the ones she loved \u2013&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4180,93,61,60,279],"class_list":{"0":"post-209240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-chloe-mcpolin","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-review-magazine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}