{"id":107887,"date":"2019-08-29T03:19:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T01:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/08\/29\/i-dreaded-that-song-coming-out-ben-folds-on-brick-william-shatner-and-hitting-rock-bottom\/"},"modified":"2019-08-29T03:19:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T01:19:36","slug":"i-dreaded-that-song-coming-out-ben-folds-on-brick-william-shatner-and-hitting-rock-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=107887","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I dreaded that song coming out\u2019: Ben Folds on Brick, William Shatner and hitting rock bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Australia with his new memoir, the \u2018songwriting sociopath\u2019 discusses creativity and what Shatner taught him about coolness: \u2018He just does not give a shit\u2019Ben Folds has what appear to be perfect piano-playing hands. They\u2019re large, with long, elegant fingers \u2013 until you look closer and inspect the damage.\u201cMy left hand\u2019s fucked,\u201d he says, raising a beer with it. He lowers the glass, then vigorously shakes out the hand, from the elbow down. There\u2019s an audible click. \u201cGood to go for the next couple of hours.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2019\/aug\/29\/ben-folds-william-shatner-brick-melbourne-writers-festival\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018I dreaded that song coming out\u2019: Ben Folds on Brick, William Shatner and hitting rock bottom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Australia with his new memoir, the \u2018songwriting sociopath\u2019 discusses creativity and what Shatner taught him about coolness: \u2018He just does not give a shit\u2019Ben Folds has what appear to be perfect piano-playing hands. They\u2019re large, with long, elegant fingers \u2013 until you look closer and inspect the damage.\u201cMy left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}