{"id":11130,"date":"2013-10-24T01:43:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T01:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/katy-perry-reveals-how-john-mayer-and-africa\/"},"modified":"2013-10-24T01:43:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T01:43:10","slug":"katy-perry-reveals-how-john-mayer-and-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/katy-perry-reveals-how-john-mayer-and-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Katy Perry reveals how John Mayer (and Africa!) inspired her emotional new single &#8216;Unconditionally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Pop superstar Katy Perry\u2019s new album Prism comes out on Tuesday, Oct. 22. But the singer has now officially released the second single, \u201cUnconditionally.\u201d}} <\/p>\n<p>An emotional, soaring ballad, the song is Perry\u2019s favorite on the album and was actually inspired by Perry\u2019s current love, John Mayer, and a recent trip she took. \u201c\u2018Unconditionally\u2019 was influenced by my boyfriend and also really influenced by Africa,\u201d Perry reveals to EW. \u201cI went to Madagascar and did a UNICEF trip that changed my life and gave me this song. It\u2019s just a simple message about loving someone and accepting them and kind of driving at you don\u2019t have to be so self-conscious, you don\u2019t have to fear, because essentially, everybody has their stuff. Nobody comes stuff-free. Everybody has their things and you\u2019re never going to be perfect, and accepting that and understanding that, especially in a relationship, it makes room for a real, genuine kind of love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>music-mix.ew.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Pop superstar Katy Perry\u2019s new album Prism comes out on Tuesday, Oct. 22. But the singer has now officially released the second single, \u201cUnconditionally.\u201d}} An emotional, soaring ballad, the song is Perry\u2019s favorite on the album and was actually inspired by Perry\u2019s current love, John Mayer, and a recent trip she took. \u201c\u2018Unconditionally\u2019 was influenced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000048983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-11130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000048983,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton11130.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton11130.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton11130.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton11130.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton11130.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton11130.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000048983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11130"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=11130"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=11130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}