{"id":15843,"date":"2024-03-21T15:42:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T15:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/21\/sting-how-i-started-writing-songs-again\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T15:42:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T15:42:33","slug":"sting-how-i-started-writing-songs-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/21\/sting-how-i-started-writing-songs-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Sting: How I started writing songs again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Sting: How I started writing songs again\"   width=\"400\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oy25A7vnigg?cc_load_policy=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Sting&#8217;s early life was dominated by a shipyard\u2014and he dreamed of nothing more than escaping the industrial drudgery. But after a nasty bout of writer&#8217;s block that stretched on for years, Sting found himself channeling the stories of the shipyard workers he knew in his youth for song material. In a lyrical, confessional talk, Sting treats us to songs from his upcoming musical, and to an encore of &#8220;Message in a Bottle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world&#8217;s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design &#8212; plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more.<br \/>\nFind closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/translate\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.ted.com\/translate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow TED news on Twitter: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/tednews\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/tednews<\/a><br \/>\nLike TED on Facebook: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TED\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TED<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TEDtalksDirector\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TEDtalksDirector<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oy25A7vnigg\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sting&#8217;s early life was dominated by a shipyard\u2014and he dreamed of nothing more than escaping the industrial drudgery. But after a nasty bout of writer&#8217;s [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3804],"tags":[2121,463,1313,133,5054,14886,3093,15672,3096,3089,8659,8660,390],"class_list":["post-15843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-creativity","tag-live-music","tag-performance","tag-songs","tag-started","tag-sting","tag-ted","tag-ted-organization","tag-ted-talk","tag-ted-talks","tag-tedtalk","tag-tedtalks","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}