{"id":32521,"date":"2025-08-30T08:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T08:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/32521\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T08:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T08:19:08","slug":"wexford-musician-releases-powerful-song-to-raise-funds-for-gaza-after-seeing-father-holding-his-dead-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/32521\/","title":{"rendered":"Wexford musician releases powerful song to raise funds for Gaza after seeing \u2018father holding his dead daughter\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\">Music and recording artist Ken Stafford is a father of young twins. At first, he tried to \u2018ignore\u2019 what was happening in Gaza. Until he couldn\u2019t anymore\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wexford man Ken Stafford.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3331e292-2703-4745-9d0f-f0bc6921d85b.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)\">Wexford man Ken Stafford.<\/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)\">Wexford musician Ken Stafford is married with twins. When the horrors which are unfolding in Palestine first started, he is honest and says \u201cmy wife drew my attention to it, she has been very affected by it. I was trying to ignore it.\u201d<\/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 it was his wife who placed the idea in his head to write, produce and release the original song, Wrapped in Loving Arms, and raise funds to aid the humanitarian effort in Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Music and recording artist Ken Stafford is a father of young twins. At first, he tried to \u2018ignore\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[4247,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-32521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-cillian-boggan","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32521","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=32521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}