{"id":26864,"date":"2021-01-15T15:29:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T06:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/15\/shantytok-how-a-19th-century-seafaring-epic-inspired-a-covid-generation"},"modified":"2021-01-15T15:29:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T06:29:08","slug":"the-true-story-behind-the-viral-tiktok-sea-shanty-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26864","title":{"rendered":"The true story behind the viral TikTok sea shanty hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rediscovered song, which has a \u2018cheerful energy\u2019, was likely written by a teenage sailor or shore whaler in New Zealand in the 1830s<\/p>\n<p>Even from \u201cthe back of nowhere, far from any city\u201d \u2013 not to mention the sea \u2013 John Archer caught wind of the sea shanty revival before anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>From his home in landlocked \u014chakune, Archer had noticed a sharp uptick in visitors to the New Zealand Folk Song website he set up in 1998. One 19th-century seafaring epic was of particular interest: Soon May The Wellerman Come.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/15\/shantytok-how-a-19th-century-seafaring-epic-inspired-a-covid-generation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rediscovered song, which has a \u2018cheerful energy\u2019, was likely written by a teenage sailor or shore whaler in New Zealand in the 1830sEven from \u201cthe back of nowhere, far from any city\u201d \u2013 not to mention the sea \u2013 John Archer caught wind of the sea shanty &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1815,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,425,56,235,1496,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-music","category-new-zealand","category-social-media","category-tiktok","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1815"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26865,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26864\/revisions\/26865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}