{"id":8036,"date":"2017-10-19T18:58:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T17:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=8036"},"modified":"2017-10-19T18:58:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T17:58:36","slug":"ed-sheerans-accident-causes-tour-set-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/10\/19\/ed-sheerans-accident-causes-tour-set-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s accident causes tour set-back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran will be postponing dates on the fifth leg of his Divide tour. Sheeran is due to play Taipei\u2019s Nangang Exhibition Centre on 22 October, but it\u2019s unknown when his dates in Asia will now take place.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, Sheeran is unable to play guitar due to a cycling accident. It\u2019s believed the singer came off his bike after he was struck by a car. The <em>Shape of You<\/em> singer confirmed that his right wrist and left elbow are fractured through an Instagram post.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Q Awards, Sheeran has said he won\u2019t \u201cshort change fans\u201d\u009d by booking another musician for the shows. He\u2019s also ruled out the possibility of continuing to play with broken limbs, \u00c3\u00a0 la Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people have mentioned that to me, but I\u2019m a one man show. I don\u2019t have a band. It\u2019s me with an acoustic guitar and a loop pedal.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>So far, Sheeran\u2019s dates in Taipei, Osaka, Seoul, Tokyo and Hong Kong have been affected. Ed Sheeran still has 8 shows scheduled next month; in Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, India and Dubai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran will be postponing dates on the fifth leg of his Divide tour. Sheeran is due to play Taipei\u2019s Nangang Exhibition Centre on 22 October, but it\u2019s unknown when his dates in Asia will now take place. At the moment, Sheeran is unable to play guitar due to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":8037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,22],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8038,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036\/revisions\/8038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}