{"id":29490,"date":"2019-08-23T12:41:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T18:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1067459"},"modified":"2019-08-23T12:41:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T18:41:06","slug":"liam-paynes-rare-photo-with-his-son-proves-hes-headed-in-the-musical-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/liam-paynes-rare-photo-with-his-son-proves-hes-headed-in-the-musical-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Payne&#8217;s Rare Photo With His Son Proves He&#8217;s Headed in the Musical Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019430\/rs_600x600-190530061215-600-Liam-Payne-LT-053019-GettyImages-1071543158.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"36.571556350626\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"16.148479427549\">\n<p>That&#8217;s what makes fatherhood beautiful!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no secret that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/liam_payne\">Liam Payne<\/a><\/strong> likes to keep his family life a bit more on the private side.<\/p>\n<p>But on Friday morning, the former <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/one_direction\">One Direction<\/a><\/strong> member took to Instagram and captured a rare father-son moment for fans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Twinkle twinkle hand in hand,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B1gn8joga4x\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote<\/a> on social media while playing the piano with his growing baby boy Bear.<\/p>\n<p>While fans only get to see Bear&#8217;s hands, it&#8217;s a special glimpse into Liam&#8217;s family life that he tries to keep off&nbsp;of social media. In fact, fans got pretty creative when reacting to the post.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6\">\n<p>&#8220;Liam Payne ft. Bear Payne?&#8221; one follower wrote in the comments section. Another user wrote, &#8220;Your hand fits in mine like it&#8217;s made just for me,&#8221; which is clearly an ode to One Direction&#8217;s hit song &#8220;Little Things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"55.098039215686\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9.1830065359477\">\n<p>Back in 2017, Liam <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/827620\/liam-payne-and-cheryl-cole-welcome-their-first-child-together\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">welcomed his first child<\/a> with ex <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/cheryl_cole\">Cheryl Cole<\/a><\/strong>. He recently opened up about his new title of father in an interview with <em>Esquire Middle East<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People make it out like a lightbulb comes on and suddenly you&#8217;re a dad and it&#8217;s like\u2026 no. [Being a father] is something you have to learn and I&#8217;m not afraid to say it takes more than a f&#8211;king minute to get your head around the idea of what it is,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1045477\/liam-payne-opens-up-about-one-direction-agoraphobia-and-taking-more-than-a-f-king-minute-to-understand-fatherhood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared with the<\/a> publication. &#8220;The not understanding is the most difficult bit&#8230;especially when you have a toddler who doesn&#8217;t understand how to communicate and you can&#8217;t understand what they want.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56.586363636364\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"7.6727272727273\">\n<p>Ultimately, the 25-year-old is balancing a successful music career, modeling opportunities and the greatest role of all\u2014fatherhood.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Best birthday ever,&#8221; he previously wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BYYcTWYB7KN\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a> while hanging out with his son.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1067459\/liam-payne-s-rare-photo-with-his-son-proves-he-s-headed-in-the-musical-direction?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! 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But on Friday morning, the former One Direction member took to Instagram and captured a rare father-son moment for fans. &#8220;Twinkle twinkle hand in hand,&#8221; he wrote on social media while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-23 13:05:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}