{"id":13024,"date":"2010-08-10T10:27:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T14:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=13024"},"modified":"2010-08-10T10:30:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T14:30:57","slug":"singer-hikaru-utada-announces-%e2%80%98artistic-activity%e2%80%99-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/10\/singer-hikaru-utada-announces-%e2%80%98artistic-activity%e2%80%99-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Hikaru Utada Announces \u2018Artistic Activity\u2019 Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Utada-Cover-Sample.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13025\" title=\"Utada Cover Sample\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Utada-Cover-Sample-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Utada-Cover-Sample-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Utada-Cover-Sample-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Utada-Cover-Sample.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By <a onclick=\"pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/jetaany.org');\" href=\"http:\/\/jetaany.org\/magazine\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>JQ Magazine<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em>\u2019s\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"mailto:magazine@jetaany.org\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Justin Tedaldi<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong> <\/strong>(CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-46636-NY-Japanese-Culture-Examiner\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>here<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em> to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada is going from exodus to hiatus.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.u3music.com\/message\/index.php?m=1\" target=\"_blank\">message on her homepage<\/a> from Aug. 9, Hikki (as she as known to her army of fans worldwide) has wrote that following the release of this fall\u2019s <em>Utada Hikaru Single Collection Vol. 2<\/em> album, she will take time off from her musical career effective next year.<\/p>\n<p>The message finds the musician in a reflective mood, recalling the music video from her single \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FntiysTxkPI\" target=\"_blank\">Automatic<\/a>,\u201d released 12 years ago when the singer was just 15 years old. She commented that since then, \u201cpart of my growth has stopped\u2026as a person.\u201d Hikki now intends to focus on \u201chuman activity\u201d over \u201cartistic activity\u201d in the next year for an indeterminate period.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full\u00a0story <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/examiner\/x-46636-NY-Japanese-Culture-Examiner~y2010m8d10-Singer-Hikaru-Utada-announces-artistic-activity-break\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JQ Magazine\u2019s\u00a0Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page here to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories. Singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada is going from exodus to hiatus. According to a message on her homepage from Aug. 9, Hikki (as she as known to her army of fans worldwide) has wrote that following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,26,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-celebrity","category-interviewprofile"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-3o4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13024"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13027,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13024\/revisions\/13027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}