{"id":43197,"date":"2025-03-26T10:30:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T14:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=43197"},"modified":"2025-03-26T09:46:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:46:24","slug":"dolly-parton-moved-by-emotional-opry-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/03\/dolly-parton-moved-by-emotional-opry-tribute\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton Moved By Emotional Opry Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dolly Parton has shared her feelings about the emotional tribute to her late husband, Carl Dean, that took place at the end of the Grand Ole Opry\u2019s 100th-anniversary special.<\/p>\n<p>The event came to a stirring finish as the Opry stage was filled with country superstars delivering a heartfelt rendition of Parton\u2019s classic song, \u201cI Will Always Love You,\u201d honoring Dolly during her time of grief.<\/p>\n<p>Two days after the Opry special aired, the 79-year-old country icon gave her reaction to the honor in a statement on her Instagram Stories.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI have not stopped crying over the beautiful tribute of \u2018I Will Always Love You\u2019 on the 100th Anniversary of the Grand Ole Opry show. All those beautiful people with all their beautiful voices singing my song as a tribute to my husband Carl\u2026 the emotion was beyond words. I have cried enough to wash a great deal of the pain away so thanks to all of you beautiful people that helped make that possible. I also will always love you.\u201d<\/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\/\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton Reveals That She Has \u201cNot Stopped Crying\u201d Since Opry Tribute to Late Husband Carl Dean","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":37182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3103,83,164,2250,445],"class_list":["post-43197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-carl-dean","tag-dolly-parton","tag-grand-ole-opry","tag-i-will-always-love-you","tag-opry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 02:49:14","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\/dolly-parton-moved-by-emotional-opry-tribute\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43197","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=43197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43198,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43197\/revisions\/43198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}