{"id":8915,"date":"2023-02-22T20:32:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T10:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=8915"},"modified":"2023-02-22T20:32:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T10:02:23","slug":"stung-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=8915","title":{"rendered":"Stung At Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up to the music of \u2018The Police\u2019 and later loved Sting\u2019s solo work. In all the intervening years I\u2019d never seen a live performance of either. This week I was stung at last and finally got to see Gordon Sumner, AKA \u2018Sting\u2019, live here in the Adelaide Entertainment Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Wow! Despite being 70 years old Sting sang with the power and tone of a self half his age. For nearly 2 hours he rocked us with his 1957 Fender Precision bass guitar, wowed us with his musicianship and gave his all to make it a special night for us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up to the music of \u2018The Police\u2019 and later loved Sting\u2019s solo work. In all the intervening years I\u2019d never seen a live performance of either. This week I was stung at last and finally got to see Gordon Sumner, AKA \u2018Sting\u2019, live here in the Adelaide Entertainment Centre. Wow! Despite being 70 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,1728,2974,237,326,1491,1678],"class_list":["post-8915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adelaide","tag-concert","tag-entertainmentcentre","tag-livemusic","tag-music","tag-performingarts","tag-sting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8917,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8915\/revisions\/8917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}