{"id":7135,"date":"2016-09-16T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/?p=7135"},"modified":"2025-07-09T05:43:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T05:43:18","slug":"waterwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/?p=7135","title":{"rendered":"Waterwood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Waterwood\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tPGtT-VYoa8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Waterwood got me back to making music after a few years out. My aim was to revisit some of my earlier songs and musical themes and look at them through the light of Pistyll Gwyn, the misty woody place which is now my home in West Wales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tune here was originally written for a piece of theatre at Dartington Hall School in 1985, which then evolved into a song called \u2018Rat Race&#8217; before becoming \u2018Waterwood\u2019. I do like this version, but I suspect I\u2019m not quite done with this one yet \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The image is of Pistyll Gwyn woods, summer and winter. The beautiful woman is my mother, when she was a teenager \u2013 picture taken sometime in the late 1940s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waterwood got me back to making music after a few years out. My aim was to revisit some of my earlier songs and musical themes and look at them through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"rishi__cb_customizer_meta":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7545,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135\/revisions\/7545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}