{"id":22150,"date":"2021-05-07T08:45:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T12:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=22150"},"modified":"2021-05-06T11:01:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T15:01:13","slug":"garth-brooks-cried-when-he-first-heard-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/05\/garth-brooks-cried-when-he-first-heard-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"Garth Brooks Cried When He First Heard &#8220;Mom&#8221;"},"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\/_RHmNXvAw2c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Garth Brooks always gets a huge response when he plays his song, \u201cMom,\u201d to a live audience.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t write it himself, but it reflects how he feels about his mom.<\/p>\n<p>Garth talked about the first time he heard it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was by myself in Oklahoma\u2026sat around the dining room table and just cried like a baby. \u2018Cause I love my mom, but it\u2019s also pretty cool because when you have your kid, you\u2019re everything, right? And, so, sometimes you have to be Mom; sometimes you have to be Dad. So that song just kills me.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Garth&#8217;s mom Colleen passed away in 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garth Brooks always gets a huge response when he plays his song, \u201cMom,\u201d to a live audience.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":22212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[67,1174,865],"class_list":["post-22150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-garth-brooks","tag-mom","tag-mothers-day"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 19:16:57","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\/05\/garth-brooks-cried-when-he-first-heard-mom\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22150","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=22150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22151,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22150\/revisions\/22151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}