{"id":20640,"date":"2021-03-02T05:50:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T10:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=20640"},"modified":"2021-03-02T05:50:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T10:50:06","slug":"blanco-brown-opens-up-about-his-near-fatal-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/03\/blanco-brown-opens-up-about-his-near-fatal-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Blanco Brown Opens Up About His Near-Fatal Accident"},"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\/DT4kQlM5xuE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/9532765\/blanco-brown-first-interview-near-fatal-motorcycle-accident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In an interview with &#8220;Billboard<\/a>&#8220;, Blanco Brown opened up about his near-fatal motorcycle crash, when he collided head-on with a pickup truck last August.<\/p>\n<p>He says the accident was not his fault, but he&#8217;s not allowed to elaborate.<\/p>\n<p>The scariest moment was being rushed into surgery and hearing a doctor say he wasn&#8217;t sure if he would make it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;That was a moment. I could only lay there. I was like &#8216;Please don&#8217;t let me leave.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He broke both of his arms, wrists, legs, and his pelvis, and spent almost a month in the hospital.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t turn in the bed. External pipes were sticking out of my body holding my pelvis together. I had to learn how to do simple things [like] feed myself.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Visitation was tough because of COVID, but family, friends, and fellow artists did their best.<\/p>\n<p>Tim McGraw sent a black cowboy hat and signed it, &#8220;Love ya, Blanco.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What&#8217;s so crazy is that day I was really down, just thinking like, &#8216;Am I going to heal at this rate?&#8217; To tell you the truth, I got the hat and it made me feel great about everything. It made me want to get up, but I couldn&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s finally back making music and hopes to release a new album in the fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an interview with &#8220;Billboard&#8221;, Blanco Brown opened up about his near-fatal motorcycle crash, when he collided head-on with a pickup truck last August.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":20642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[890,213,1345,1607,2290],"class_list":["post-20640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-accident","tag-billboard","tag-blanco-brown","tag-motorcycle","tag-the-git-up"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 19:34:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/03\/blanco-brown-opens-up-about-his-near-fatal-accident\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20640","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=20640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20641,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20640\/revisions\/20641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}