{"id":171011,"date":"2025-11-09T07:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T07:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/171011\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T07:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T07:04:11","slug":"jon-bon-jovi-i-sit-before-you-with-grey-hair-and-63-year-old-lines-on-my-face-but-its-ok-i-dont-want-to-be-something-im-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/171011\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Bon Jovi: \u2018I sit before you with grey hair and 63-year-old lines on my face but it\u2019s OK, I don\u2019t want to be something I\u2019m not\u2019\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nRock star Jon Bon Jovi isn\u2019t slowing down at 63. In Dublin to promote his band\u2019s tour next summer, he reflects on the working-class upbringing that\u2019s been the bedrock of his success, his Irish influences and not being afraid to speak out against Trump\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762671851_841_video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Jon Bon Jovi on his relationship with Ireland, surgery and his love for Irish audiences<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cAmerica\u2019s on fire, ain\u2019t it?\u201d says Jon Bon Jovi. He looks like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever, without many signs of his 63 years. His waistline is that of a 20-year-old and his hair is thick, even bouffant. He is a rock star who has sold over 150 million records but is not afraid to speak up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">And over the course of the 40 minutes I spent with him for this interview in his suite at the Westbury Hotel in Dublin, he spoke up. At one point, he addressed an imaginary Donald J Trump: \u201cYou knock down a wing of the f**king White House!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rock star Jon Bon Jovi isn\u2019t slowing down at 63. In Dublin to promote his band\u2019s tour next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[4747,17535,15248,1007,18,117,19,17,4746,337,26706],"class_list":{"0":"post-171011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-barry-egan","9":"tag-bob-dylan","10":"tag-bruce-springsteen","11":"tag-croke-park","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-life-magazine","17":"tag-music","18":"tag-van-morrison"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115518470247396164","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}