{"id":399128,"date":"2025-09-05T05:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/399128\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T05:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:14:13","slug":"i-do-a-three-to-four-hour-set-sing-all-the-crowd-pleasers-how-a-stroke-at-37-led-ex-uup-woman-to-swap-career-in-politics-for-the-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/399128\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I do a three to four hour set, sing all the crowd pleasers\u2019: How a stroke at 37 led ex-UUP woman to swap career in politics for the stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757049253_274_video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">From politics to performing, Julie-Anne Corr-Johnston picks up the microphone <\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">After suffering a stroke at 37, former unionist councillor Julie-Anne Corr-Johnston took stock of her life, making a change that has taken her from politics to performing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Now working as a singer, she says she is proud that she\u2019s found a way of raising her young family and doing something she loves, but it took a major health scare to bring about the transformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From politics to performing, Julie-Anne Corr-Johnston picks up the microphone After suffering a stroke at 37, former unionist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[25912,6570,1144,16,15719,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-399128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-allison-morris","9":"tag-north-belfast-news","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-ulster-unionist-party","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115149987184394995","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399128","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=399128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}