{"id":15801,"date":"2020-06-26T04:43:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T08:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=15801"},"modified":"2020-06-26T04:43:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T08:43:09","slug":"dixie-chicks-drop-dixie-from-their-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/06\/dixie-chicks-drop-dixie-from-their-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Dixie Chicks Drop &#8216;Dixie&#8217; From Their Name"},"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\/xwBjF_VVFvE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The Dixie Chicks have dropped the &#8220;dixie&#8221; part of their name and will here forward be known as just The Chicks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/country\/dixie-chicks-change-name-to-the-chicks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">People.com reports<\/a> the name change separates them from the nickname for the Civil War-era South amid nationwide protests, including the removal of several Confederate statues.<\/p>\n<p>A statement on The Chicks&#8217; website says,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We want to meet this moment.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a statement to People, Natalie Maines, Emily Strayer and Martie Maguire acknowledged a 1960s pop group from New Zealand of the same name.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A sincere and heartfelt thank you goes out to &#8216;The Chicks&#8217; of NZ for their gracious gesture in allowing us to share their name. We are honoured to co-exist together in the world with these exceptionally talented sisters. Chicks Rock!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The name change comes on the heels of Lady A&#8217;s permanent change from Lady Antebellum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dixie Chicks have dropped the &#8220;dixie&#8221; part of their name and will here forward be known as just The Chicks.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":15422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1278,2004,2048,2111,2110],"class_list":["post-15801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-dixie-chicks","tag-gaslighter","tag-lady-a","tag-march-march","tag-the-chicks"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 21:40:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/06\/dixie-chicks-drop-dixie-from-their-name\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15801","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=15801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15802,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15801\/revisions\/15802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}