{"id":4288,"date":"2019-02-20T06:49:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T11:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=4288"},"modified":"2019-02-20T06:49:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T11:49:28","slug":"luke-bryan-on-american-idol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/02\/luke-bryan-on-american-idol\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Bryan On American Idol"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"teaser\">\n<div class=\"headline\">LUKE BRYAN LOVES BEING ABLE TO MAKE DREAMS COME TRUE ON &#8216;IDOL&#8217; &#8211; (02\/20\/2019)<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-warning\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"story-body\">\n<p><i>American Idol<\/i>\u00a0returns to ABC on March 3rd and with it, so does\u00a0<strong>Luke Bryan, Katy Perry\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Lionel Richie<\/strong>\u00a0as the show\u2019s judges as well as longtime host\u00a0<strong>Ryan Seacrest<\/strong>. While the bond between the four has solidified even more this season, Luke says the most important aspect of the talent competition is the contestants.\u00a0[\u201cIt\u2019s always about the contestants. That\u2019s what makes the show fun for us \u2013 the surprises, the talent, the youthfulness of the talent. I mean, we have so many 15, 16, 17-year-olds that are unbelievable, and watching them handle the pressure and have fun and the tears and the joy and the smile and all that. We love the role \u2013 me and Katie and Lionel and Ryan \u2013 we\u2019re having a great time doing this, and to be able to facilitate these kids\u2019 dreams is very special for us.\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4iLV13SBX6k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Making dreams come true ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":4290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 13:53:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/02\/luke-bryan-on-american-idol\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4289,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions\/4289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}