{"id":2096501,"date":"2026-08-16T09:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T06:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2096501"},"modified":"2026-08-16T09:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T06:48:23","slug":"lewis-capaldi-makes-self-deprecating-nod-to-florence-the-machine-lyric-onstage-at-sziget-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2096501","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Capaldi makes self-deprecating nod to Florence + The Machine lyric onstage at Sziget Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/live-lewis-capaldi.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"template-id-2749694\" class=\"post-2749694 tdb_templates type-tdb_templates status-publish post\">\n<div id=\"tdi_65\" class=\"tdc-zone\">\n<div class=\"tdc_zone tdi_66  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div id=\"tdi_67\" class=\"tdc-row stretch_row_1400 td-stretch-content\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_68  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_70  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_breadcrumbs tdi_71 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-breadcrumbs \" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_71\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span>News<\/span><i class=\"tdb-bread-sep td-icon-right\"><\/i><span>Music News<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_title tdi_72 tdb-single-title td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_72\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Lewis Capaldi makes self-deprecating nod to Florence + The Machine lyric onstage at Sziget Festival<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_subtitle tdi_73 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_73\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>He said he had been listening to a cutting line from &#8216;One Of The Greats&#8217; and was thinking, &#8220;Oh fuck, yeah&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_author tdi_75 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_75\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span> Poppy Burton<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_date tdi_76 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_76\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2026-08-16T10:48:23+01:00\">16th August 2026<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!-- .\/block --><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tdi_77\" class=\"tdc-row stretch_row_1400 td-stretch-content\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_78  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_80  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span8\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_featured_image tdi_81 tdb-content-horiz-left td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_81\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<figure>\n                                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"696\" height=\"442\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/live-lewis-capaldi-696x442.jpg\" alt=\"Lewis Capaldi and Florence Welch\" title=\"Lewis Capaldi and Florence Welch\"><figcaption class=\"tdb-caption-text\">Lewis Capaldi and Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine. CREDIT: Maxine Howells\/Getty Images\/Joseph Okpako\/WireImage<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_row_inner tdi_83 article-content-row vc_row vc_inner wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column_inner tdi_85  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-inner-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_86 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_86\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Lewis Capaldi made a self-deprecating nod to a Florence Welch lyric while onstage at\u00a0Sziget Festival \u2013 check out footage below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>READ MORE: Florence + The Machine and Fcukers kept the party going at Sziget 2026 day three<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Scottish singer was appearing on the festival\u2019s main stage in Budapest, Hungary on Thursday (August 13), where he performed immediately before headliners Florence + the Machine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad0 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span>  <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-article-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIs everyone looking forward to Florence + The Machine,\u201d he asked the crowd to cheers, before launching into one of the most searing lines from the \u2018Everybody Scream\u2019 track \u2018One of the Greats\u2019: \u201c<em>Must be nice to be a man, and make boring music just because you can<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>After chuckling and pointing to himself, he said: \u201cI was listening to that, and I was thinking, \u2018Oh fuck, yeah.&#8217;\u201d\u00a0Welch has previously said the track, which Aaron Dessner\u00a0of\u00a0The National\u00a0and\u00a0Big Red Machine also worked on, was a \u201c15-year outpouring of frustration\u201d after being \u201cridiculed and derided for the bigness of [her] expression\u201d earlier in her career.<\/p>\n<p>The track was named as one of\u00a0<em>NME<\/em>\u2018s 50 Best Songs of 2025. In at Number 15, the entry read: \u201cFlorence Welch has made an art out of fusing the mythic with the searingly personal. Over six sprawling minutes, she manages to interrogate her place as \u2018One Of The Greats\u2019 with the same wit and swagger that solidifies it.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DcAqvHSsgLQ\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>NME\u2019s<\/em> Jordan Bassett went along to see Welch\u2019s set at Sziget, which was described as \u201cwhat it might look like if Ari Aster directed a concert\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad1 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"taboola-mid-article-title\">Recommended<\/h5>\n<div id=\"taboola-mid-article\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cAs her backing singers and dancers \u2013 clad in gothic gowns like they\u2019d wandered in from a production of <em>The Crucible<\/em> \u2013 huddled together, Florence twirled around the stage, her blood-dress flailing dramatically,\u201d the review read. \u201cIt\u2019s a good job she didn\u2019t play during the previous night\u2019s solar eclipse, because we almost certainly would have all been turned into frogs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDancing out to her own stage at the end of a runway, Florence was the grand master and high priestess of proceedings, in absolute control and with tens of thousands of bewitched punters under her spell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Welch previously revealed that the inspiration for the \u2018Everybody Scream\u2019 album\u00a0came from\u00a0undergoing lifesaving surgery during the \u2018Dance Fever\u2019 tour in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>She has since opened up further about the procedure,\u00a0revealing that she had suffered an ectopic pregnancy.\u00a0\u201cThe closest I came to making life was the closest I came to death,\u201d Welch explained in a recent interview. \u201cAnd I felt like I had stepped through this door, and it was just full of women, screaming.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad2 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span>  <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-article-2\" class=\"lazy-ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>You can find more advice and support around ectopic pregnancy\u00a0here.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Around that same time, Welch had said that\u00a0exploring spiritual mysticism and folk horror helped inspire the album\u00a0\u2013 understanding the limits of her body and questioning what it meant to be \u201chealed\u201d. Other themes tackled include the exploration of womanhood, partnership, ageing and dying.<\/p>\n<p><em>NME<\/em>\u00a0gave the record a full\u00a0five stars, with Laura Molloy writing: \u201cThere\u2019s no easy, radio-friendly hit here, nor a euphoric finale, with the album instead departing on a small exhale. \u2018The gift of going through something awful is that you can embrace someone who\u2019s been through it too,\u2019 Welch said in a recent interview.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlbum closer \u2018And Love\u2019, then, is her final embrace, fluttering away in a haze of classic Florence + The Machine harp and distant murmurs of \u201c<i>peace is coming<\/i>\u201d. It\u2019s a succinct and surprising end to a tempestuous record, one that stays with you longer than the rage and anguish which, here, is as fleeting, yet deeply magical, as the changing seasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for Capaldi, the recent Sziget slot saw him confirm plans for a third album, which would mark the follow-up to 2019\u2019s \u2018Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent\u2019\u00a0and 2023\u2019s\u00a0\u2018Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for continuously showing up and watching us when we come to this festival \u2013 it really means the world,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m gonna go away after\u2026 We\u2019ve got six more gigs this summer, and then I\u2019m gonna go away and make a new album for everybody \u2013 if everybody\u2019s interested?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When this was received with a cheer, he continued: \u201cI promise I\u2019ll be back as soon as I possibly fucking can be.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_tags tdi_87 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_87\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<ul class=\"tdb-tags\">\n<li><span>Related Topics<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Florence &amp; The Machine<\/li>\n<li>Florence Welch<\/li>\n<li>Lewis Capaldi<\/li>\n<li>Pop<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper td_block_wrap vc_raw_html tdi_89 \">\n<div class=\"td-fix-index\">\n<h3>You May Also Like<\/h3>\n<div id=\"taboola-below-article\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_91  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span4 td-is-sticky\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-sidebar  tdi_92 td_block_template_2\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-sidebar-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap td_flex_block_1 tdi_93 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdc-no-posts td_flex_block\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_93\">\n<div class=\"td-block-title-wrap\">\n<h4 class=\"td-block-title\"><span class=\"td-pulldown-size\">TRENDING<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tdi_93\" class=\"td_block_inner td-mc1-wrap\">\n<div class=\"td_module_flex td_module_flex_1 td_module_wrap td-animation-stack\">\n<div class=\"td-module-container td-category-pos-\">\n<div class=\"td-image-container\">\n<div class=\"td-module-thumb\"><span class=\"entry-thumb td-thumb-css\" data-type=\"css_image\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Diablo-4-Lord-Of-Hatred-400x254.jpg\" data-img-retina-url=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Diablo-4-Lord-Of-Hatred-800x508.jpg\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"td-module-meta-info\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title td-module-title\">How \u2018Diablo\u2019 continues to provide the definitive dark-fantasy game soundtrack<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"td_module_flex td_module_flex_1 td_module_wrap td-animation-stack\">\n<div class=\"td-module-container td-category-pos-\">\n<div class=\"td-image-container\">\n<div class=\"td-module-thumb\"><span class=\"entry-thumb td-thumb-css\" data-type=\"css_image\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/this-is-lorelei-credit-gabe-long-400x254.jpg\" data-img-retina-url=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/this-is-lorelei-credit-gabe-long-800x508.jpg\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"td-module-meta-info\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title td-module-title\">This Is Lorelei was only meant to be a side project. 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class=\"td-page-meta\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"td-page-meta\"><\/span>                <\/article>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_86 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_86\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Lewis Capaldi made a self-deprecating nod to a Florence Welch lyric while onstage at\u00a0Sziget Festival \u2013 check out footage below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>READ MORE: Florence + The Machine and Fcukers kept the party going at Sziget 2026 day three<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Scottish singer was appearing on the festival\u2019s main stage in Budapest, Hungary on Thursday (August 13), where he performed immediately before headliners Florence + the Machine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad0 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span>  <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-article-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIs everyone looking forward to Florence + The Machine,\u201d he asked the crowd to cheers, before launching into one of the most searing lines from the \u2018Everybody Scream\u2019 track \u2018One of the Greats\u2019: \u201c<em>Must be nice to be a man, and make boring music just because you can<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>After chuckling and pointing to himself, he said: \u201cI was listening to that, and I was thinking, \u2018Oh fuck, yeah.&#8217;\u201d\u00a0Welch has previously said the track, which Aaron Dessner\u00a0of\u00a0The National\u00a0and\u00a0Big Red Machine also worked on, was a \u201c15-year outpouring of frustration\u201d after being \u201cridiculed and derided for the bigness of [her] expression\u201d earlier in her career.<\/p>\n<p>The track was named as one of\u00a0<em>NME<\/em>\u2018s 50 Best Songs of 2025. In at Number 15, the entry read: \u201cFlorence Welch has made an art out of fusing the mythic with the searingly personal. Over six sprawling minutes, she manages to interrogate her place as \u2018One Of The Greats\u2019 with the same wit and swagger that solidifies it.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DcAqvHSsgLQ\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>NME\u2019s<\/em> Jordan Bassett went along to see Welch\u2019s set at Sziget, which was described as \u201cwhat it might look like if Ari Aster directed a concert\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad1 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"taboola-mid-article-title\">Recommended<\/h5>\n<div id=\"taboola-mid-article\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cAs her backing singers and dancers \u2013 clad in gothic gowns like they\u2019d wandered in from a production of <em>The Crucible<\/em> \u2013 huddled together, Florence twirled around the stage, her blood-dress flailing dramatically,\u201d the review read. \u201cIt\u2019s a good job she didn\u2019t play during the previous night\u2019s solar eclipse, because we almost certainly would have all been turned into frogs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDancing out to her own stage at the end of a runway, Florence was the grand master and high priestess of proceedings, in absolute control and with tens of thousands of bewitched punters under her spell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Welch previously revealed that the inspiration for the \u2018Everybody Scream\u2019 album\u00a0came from\u00a0undergoing lifesaving surgery during the \u2018Dance Fever\u2019 tour in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>She has since opened up further about the procedure,\u00a0revealing that she had suffered an ectopic pregnancy.\u00a0\u201cThe closest I came to making life was the closest I came to death,\u201d Welch explained in a recent interview. \u201cAnd I felt like I had stepped through this door, and it was just full of women, screaming.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad2 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span>  <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-article-2\" class=\"lazy-ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>You can find more advice and support around ectopic pregnancy\u00a0here.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Around that same time, Welch had said that\u00a0exploring spiritual mysticism and folk horror helped inspire the album\u00a0\u2013 understanding the limits of her body and questioning what it meant to be \u201chealed\u201d. Other themes tackled include the exploration of womanhood, partnership, ageing and dying.<\/p>\n<p><em>NME<\/em>\u00a0gave the record a full\u00a0five stars, with Laura Molloy writing: \u201cThere\u2019s no easy, radio-friendly hit here, nor a euphoric finale, with the album instead departing on a small exhale. \u2018The gift of going through something awful is that you can embrace someone who\u2019s been through it too,\u2019 Welch said in a recent interview.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlbum closer \u2018And Love\u2019, then, is her final embrace, fluttering away in a haze of classic Florence + The Machine harp and distant murmurs of \u201c<i>peace is coming<\/i>\u201d. It\u2019s a succinct and surprising end to a tempestuous record, one that stays with you longer than the rage and anguish which, here, is as fleeting, yet deeply magical, as the changing seasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for Capaldi, the recent Sziget slot saw him confirm plans for a third album, which would mark the follow-up to 2019\u2019s \u2018Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent\u2019\u00a0and 2023\u2019s\u00a0\u2018Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for continuously showing up and watching us when we come to this festival \u2013 it really means the world,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m gonna go away after\u2026 We\u2019ve got six more gigs this summer, and then I\u2019m gonna go away and make a new album for everybody \u2013 if everybody\u2019s interested?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When this was received with a cheer, he continued: \u201cI promise I\u2019ll be back as soon as I possibly fucking can be.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/lewis-capaldi-makes-self-deprecating-nod-to-florence-the-machine-lyric-onstage-at-sziget-festival-3962990&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/live-lewis-capaldi.jpg&#8221;] NewsMusic News Lewis Capaldi makes self-deprecating nod to Florence + The Machine lyric onstage at Sziget Festival He said he had been listening to a cutting line from &#8216;One Of The Greats&#8217; and was thinking, &#8220;Oh fuck, yeah&#8221; By Poppy Burton 16th August 2026 Lewis Capaldi and Florence Welch of Florence + [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,78],"class_list":["post-2096501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-nme-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2096501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2096501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2096501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2096501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}