{"id":2169,"date":"2023-02-22T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2169-stung-at-last.html"},"modified":"2023-02-22T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T10:00:00","slug":"stung-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2169-stung-at-last.html","title":{"rendered":"Stung At Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:2830 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1962-20230221_213825.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\nI 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.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWow! 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.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n#Sting #performingarts #adelaide #entertainmentcentre #concert #livemusic #music<br \/>\n<br \/>\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 &#8230; <a title=\"Stung At Last\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2169-stung-at-last.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Stung At Last\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}