{"id":14021,"date":"2002-05-19T13:28:50","date_gmt":"2002-05-19T18:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/05\/19\/the-truth-about-sting\/"},"modified":"2002-05-19T13:28:50","modified_gmt":"2002-05-19T18:28:50","slug":"the-truth-about-sting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/05\/19\/14021-the-truth-about-sting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About Sting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><b>W&#8217;dfara<\/b> writes: Parade is a magazine supplement found in many American Sunday newspapers. In &#8220;Walter Scott&#8217;s Personality Parade&#8221; column in today&#8217;s edition (May 19, 2002), there is a Tolkien-related question and answer:<\/p>\n<p><i>Q: Did rock star Sting get his stage name from one of the swords in J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s The Hobbit? &#8211; Eleanor Rapp, Vienna, Va.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>A: Sting (Gordon Sumner), 50, is a Tolkien fan, but that&#8217;s not the source of his name. Early in his career, he wore a black-and-yellow striped sweater resembling a yellowjacket. One night there was a heckler in the audience. A band mate told Sumner, &#8220;Get him, Sting!&#8221; The name stuck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>W&#8217;dfara writes: Parade is a magazine supplement found in many American Sunday newspapers. In &#8220;Walter Scott&#8217;s Personality Parade&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-3E9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}