{"id":258859,"date":"2025-07-12T12:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T12:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/258859\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T12:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T12:01:12","slug":"will-smith-discovers-surprising-welsh-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/258859\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Smith discovers surprising Welsh connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Writing the new album, he said, led to him &#8220;looking deeper at the reality of who and what I am&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I let myself talk from places and write from places and create from places within me that I&#8217;ve been scared of&#8230; places that have been repressed and I call the energies, the despicable prisoners,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You know, those parts of myself that are not necessarily for Instagram. Those spaces that aren&#8217;t necessarily for the BBC.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smith said he will be performing a mix of his new and old material in the UK. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the Welsh capital, with his newly-discovered connections to the country, fans might even hear the Fresh Prince speak a little of the language. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Welsh Smith as he is calling himself, has been trying to learn a few phrases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Writing the new album, he said, led to him &#8220;looking deeper at the reality of who and what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-258859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114840160407246469","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}