{"id":1210,"date":"2018-09-19T05:15:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T09:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2019-02-11T10:36:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T15:36:23","slug":"dustin-lynch-welcomed-to-grand-ole-opry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2018\/09\/dustin-lynch-welcomed-to-grand-ole-opry\/","title":{"rendered":"Dustin Lynch Welcomed To Grand Ole Opry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Facebook video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/grandoleopry\/videos\/258710484682043\/\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Dustin Lynch became an official member of the Grand Ole Opry on Tuesday, September 18th in Nashville. His longtime crush, Reba McEntire, did the honors, welcoming Dustin and shedding a few tears along with him.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bn4-ep1n9v5\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p>Dustin told the crowd, \u201cI told everybody before I came out here I\u2019m a crybaby, and I get it from my dad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1042220348375289857&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Family, including Dustin&#8217;s parents and grandparents, the inspiration for his first hit, &#8220;Cowboys &amp; Angels,&#8221; were on hand for the special occasion. He also received congratulatory wishes and gifts from his fellow entertainers and Opry members.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I walked in today and the first thing I received was a very generous bottle from a beautiful girl by the name of Carrie Underwood with a sweet note, so . . . very classy, and the note said, &#8216;welcome to the family&#8217; and it&#8217;s so cool that Carrie Underwood knows who I am.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also while backstage, a record label executive surprised Dustin with a plaque certifying streams in excess of one billion.<\/p>\n<p>Dustin first performed on the Opry stage in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dustin Lynch became an official member of the Grand Ole Opry on Tuesday, September 18th in Nashville. ","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[163,164,84],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-dustin-lynch","tag-grand-ole-opry","tag-reba"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 05:31:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2018\/09\/dustin-lynch-welcomed-to-grand-ole-opry\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4065,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions\/4065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}