{"id":43158,"date":"2025-03-22T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=43158"},"modified":"2025-03-21T09:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T13:21:08","slug":"jelly-roll-to-pay-students-loans-for-two-fans-in-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/03\/jelly-roll-to-pay-students-loans-for-two-fans-in-winnipeg\/","title":{"rendered":"Jelly Roll To Pay Students Loans For Two Fans In Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jelly Roll has pledged to pay off the student loans of two University of Manitoba students, Deandra Courchene and Brianna Knott.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/winnipeg\/article\/still-in-disbelief-jelly-roll-offers-to-pay-student-loans-for-manitoba-university-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">During his concert at Winnipeg&#8217;s Canada Life Centre the students held signs requesting assistance with their loans.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Noticing the signs, Jelly Roll announced from the stage, &#8220;You don&#8217;t got student loans no more, girls. We&#8217;re gonna pay them off for y&#8217;all, alright?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They both social work students, expressed their astonishment and gratitude.<\/p>\n<p>Courchene, a mother of four, mentioned her growing concern about repaying over $60,000 in loans upon graduation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was really starting to worry about paying that money back and now I don\u2019t have to.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The students have coordinated with Jelly Roll&#8217;s management, agreeing to complete their studies as part of the arrangement. Courchene is set to graduate in 2026, and Knott in 2027.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Facebook video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100008984057322\/videos\/pcb.3493043794338388\/1202232791343200\" width=\"267\" height=\"476\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jelly Roll has pledged to pay off the student loans of two University of Manitoba students, Deandra Courchene and Brianna Knott.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":40396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[6127,1108,6126,3964,6124,6125,6123],"class_list":["post-43158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-brianna-knott","tag-concert","tag-deandra-courchene","tag-jelly-roll","tag-tuition","tag-university-of-manitoba","tag-winnipeg"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 07:39:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/03\/jelly-roll-to-pay-students-loans-for-two-fans-in-winnipeg\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43158","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=43158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43160,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43158\/revisions\/43160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}