{"id":362537,"date":"2017-10-17T07:54:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T07:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=362537"},"modified":"2017-10-17T07:54:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T07:54:32","slug":"ed-sheeran-breaks-arm-in-cycling-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=362537","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran breaks arm in cycling accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Pop star Ed Sheeran has broken his right arm, putting his upcoming tour dates in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve had a bit of a bicycle accident,&#8221; wrote the star on his\u00a0Instagram page, posting a picture of his arm in a cast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m currently waiting on some medical advice, which may affect some of my upcoming shows. Please stay tuned for further news.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old was on a break from his world tour, but was due to resume with a gig in Taipei next week.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/1769F\/production\/_98330959_edarm.jpg\" alt=\"Ed Sheeran's arm\" width=\"976\" height=\"976\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><\/span><\/figure>\n<p>He has a further\u00a014 dates scheduled this year, including concerts in Japan, South Korea and Thailand, before kicking off the Australian leg of his tour in March 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The tour is in support of his multi million-selling third album Divide, which was released earlier this year.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Ed Sheeran quits Twitter over abuse<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Ed Sheeran burned his foot in a volcano<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Ed Sheeran closes Glastonbury 2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sheeran famously plays his concerts solo &#8211; using just a guitar and a loop pedal to layer up songs like Thinking Out Loud, Sing and Shape of You.<\/p>\n<p>Losing the use of his right arm would make such a set-up impractical &#8211; but,\u00a0speaking to BBC News earlier this year, Sheeran said he would never consider playing with a backing band.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t feel like there&#8217;s anything interesting or new about seeing a singer-songwriter with a band behind them,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t feel like if I suddenly got a band, everyone would go, &#8216;Wow!&#8217;. I actually feel it&#8217;d take away from me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pop star Ed Sheeran has broken his right arm, putting his upcoming tour dates in jeopardy. &#8220;I&#8217;ve had a bit of a bicycle accident,&#8221; wrote the star on his\u00a0Instagram page, posting a picture of his arm in a cast. &#8220;I&#8217;m currently waiting on some medical advice, which may affect some of my upcoming shows. Please [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[1083,1084,1085],"class_list":["post-362537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showbiz","tag-broken-arm","tag-ed-sheeran","tag-singer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}