{"id":174,"date":"2007-08-12T16:34:40","date_gmt":"2007-08-12T20:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=174"},"modified":"2008-07-02T19:44:04","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T23:44:04","slug":"i-sing-of-sting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"I Sing of Sting"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love the music of Sting. I wanted to learn some of his songs, so I bought the Hal Leonard guitar tab book for Fields of Gold<\/em>. There’s a transcript of an interview with Sting at the beginning of the book. He said a lot of interesting things. Here’s one answer that particularly struck a chord with me.<\/p>\n

I think one of the downsides of leisure time is that you are allowed the time to think about things seriously. In a way, you are over-sensitive to certain issues. Maybe just because I don’t have to worry about paying the mortgage anymore or I don’t have to clock on at work at 7:30 every morning, or drive through the rush hour traffic. I actually can sit at home and worry. Maybe that’s an artist’s job: to worry, to be anxious, to articulate that anxiety, to look for a path out. Most people haven’t got time until it’s too late. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love the music of Sting. I wanted to learn some of his songs, so I bought the Hal Leonard guitar tab book for Fields of Gold. There’s a transcript of an interview with Sting at the beginning of the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[517,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}