{"id":8945,"date":"2019-08-06T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=8945"},"modified":"2019-08-06T12:01:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T16:01:15","slug":"kelsea-ballerini-returns-to-the-opry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/08\/kelsea-ballerini-returns-to-the-opry\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelsea Ballerini Returns To The Opry"},"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\/LHIj9k3ZOzQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Kelsea Ballerini will return to the Grand Ole Opry on Tuesday, August 6th for a performance.<\/p>\n<p>An official Opry member since April, Kelsea said that even as a kid sitting in the audiences with her mom, she&#8217;s always wanted to spend as much time there as she could.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the kind of thing even as a fan you walk in the room and you&#8217;re like, &#8216;I get it.&#8217; You just feel it and I knew that even as a fan I wanted to be a part of the Opry. I just wanted to be there as much as I could and they invited me to come sing my debut single before it was even Top 30 and I just remember thinking like, &#8216;Oh my gosh, this is the coolest thing&#8217; that had ever happened to me at that point, but then when it happened I was like, &#8216;I just want to . . . everytime they ask me, like, I have to come play here.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kelsea has been working on a new album, the followup to her 2017 release, Unapologetically. Her latest single, &#8220;Miss Me More,&#8221; recently topped the country charts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kelsea Ballerini will return to the Grand Ole Opry on Tuesday, August 6th for a performance.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":8952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[164,68,30,445],"class_list":["post-8945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-grand-ole-opry","tag-kelsea-ballerini","tag-nashville","tag-opry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 07:13:33","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\/08\/kelsea-ballerini-returns-to-the-opry\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945","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=8945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8947,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945\/revisions\/8947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}