{"id":11100,"date":"2020-09-18T08:45:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T12:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=11100"},"modified":"2020-09-18T08:28:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T12:28:20","slug":"parker-mccollum-hit-is-proof-he-made-a-good-career-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/09\/parker-mccollum-hit-is-proof-he-made-a-good-career-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Parker McCollum Hit Is Proof He Made A Good Career Choice"},"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\/Ddfyc9GJLVY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Parker McCollum is enjoying watching his debut single, &#8220;Pretty Heart,&#8221; close in on the Top 15 on the country charts, not only because it validates him as an artist and songwriter, but it&#8217;s also proof to his parents that he didn&#8217;t make the wrong career decision.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s honestly really truly just humbling, I think, to look on the charts and know that, I\u2019ll send a screenshot to my parents, my mom and my dad, and I\u2019ll be like, \u2018Look how well it\u2019s doing so quickly.\u2019 And I think for them that\u2019s really cool \u2019cause when I didn\u2019t go to college trying to play country music, I think they lost a little bit of sleep some of those nights wondering where the hell I was and what I was doing. And so I think it kinda puts their mind at ease a little bit to know that maybe I wasn\u2019t crazy for trying to do this.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Parker is currently putting the finishing touches on his debut major-label album.<\/p>\n<p>He also recently Parker tested out a cover of George Strait&#8217;s &#8220;Carrying Your Love With Me&#8221;.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CE23UmfHJqb\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parker McCollum is enjoying watching his debut single, &#8220;Pretty Heart,&#8221; rise up the charts because it&#8217;s proof to his parents that he didn&#8217;t make the wrong career decision.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":11109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[4692,3512,4584,4585],"class_list":["post-11100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-carrying-your-love-with-me","tag-george-strait","tag-parker-mccollum","tag-pretty-heart"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 18:10:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/09\/parker-mccollum-hit-is-proof-he-made-a-good-career-choice\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11105,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11100\/revisions\/11105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}