{"id":1388,"date":"2018-09-24T05:42:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T09:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2019-02-11T10:36:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T15:36:22","slug":"jason-aldean-returns-to-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2018\/09\/jason-aldean-returns-to-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Aldean Returns To Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/icYEy9an0dU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Jason Aldean took the stage in Las Vegas on Friday, September 21st for the first time since the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting nearly one year ago.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BoFoXYDFgHz\/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>The superstar was on the bill at the iHeartRadio Festival, where before playing his set he greeted dozens of Vegas police officers, EMTs and firefighters on stage at the T-Mobile Arena.<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1043372299850633217&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>They were greeted by thunderous applause, and Jason told the crowd,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOn behalf of myself and my family and the country music community, I want to say thank you to the city of Las Vegas for your courage, strength and kindness. Tonight we are all proud to be Vegas strong.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Before the show, Jason told reporters backstage,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Being back in Vegas this close to the anniversary of it is, at times, a little weird. In another sense, it&#8217;s nice to be back. This is really our first performance we&#8217;ve had here since then. Tonight is going to be another step in getting through all that stuff.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The first anniversary of the Las Vegas shooting is on October 1st. Fifty-eight people were killed and more than 500 were injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason Aldean took the stage in Las Vegas for the first time since the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting nearly one year ago.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[178,109,176,177],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-iheartradio-festival","tag-jason-aldean","tag-las-vegas","tag-route-91-harvest-festival"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 08:23:49","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\/jason-aldean-returns-to-vegas\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","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=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4056,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/4056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}