{"id":38125,"date":"2024-02-08T08:45:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T13:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=38125"},"modified":"2024-02-08T06:12:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T11:12:23","slug":"remembering-toby-keith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/02\/remembering-toby-keith\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Toby Keith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CMT will pay tribute to the life and legacy of Toby Keith in a television special.<\/p>\n<p>That will air tonight, Thursday, February 8th.<\/p>\n<p>According to a trailer posted to social media, CMT Remembers: Toby Keith will take an in-depth look at the artist, his songs, and the stories behind them.<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1755263979180499279&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a\u00a0lot of great Toby Keith stories have been floating around following his death on Monday, February 5 from stomach cancer at the age of 62.<\/p>\n<p>But the best one might be about the time Willie Nelson got Toby SUPER high.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Willie&#8217;s got that real chronic, medicinal stuff . . . I couldn&#8217;t even function. It was like, the most hardcore weed that I&#8217;d ever had, and I&#8217;d only hit it like three or four times, and unlike Bill Clinton I did inhale.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hg_4DGiFHOQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>It was such a landmark moment in Toby&#8217;s life, that he even wrote a song about it, appropriately titled &#8220;Weed with Willie&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QJ9cuA93vG0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CMT will pay tribute to the life and legacy of Toby Keith in a television special.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":29969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1006,520,5259,837],"class_list":["post-38125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-cmt","tag-toby-keith","tag-weed-with-willie","tag-willie-nelson"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 23:54:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/02\/remembering-toby-keith\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38125","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=38125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38126,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38125\/revisions\/38126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}