{"id":13079,"date":"2021-02-06T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=13079"},"modified":"2021-02-05T10:12:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T15:12:55","slug":"tj-osborne-opens-up-to-ellen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/02\/tj-osborne-opens-up-to-ellen\/","title":{"rendered":"TJ Osborne Opens Up To Ellen"},"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\/MgESi-tprqs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Brothers Osborne&#8217;s TJ Osborne appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Thursday, February 4th to talk about his decision to come out as gay via a Time magazine article.<\/p>\n<p>He told the talk show host that he wished he hadn&#8217;t waited so long saying,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I kinda got to this point to where I knew there was really never going to be the perfect time, and that honestly, now that I&#8217;m kinda behind it now with the coming out, it&#8217;s wild to me that the perfect time is always now. I instantaneously felt that I wish I had done this a long time ago.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>TJ said that he has felt nothing but love since the announcement, but he&#8217;s still anxious to see how he&#8217;ll be received in rural America.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think there are some people out there &#8230; there&#8217;s a lot of hurdles, clearly, with people that don&#8217;t like gay people, and it&#8217;s just a thing. But in some respects, I do feel like maybe through my insecurities, I&#8217;ve built it up to maybe be a bigger hurdle than it was the whole time.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brothers Osborne&#8217;s TJ Osborne appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Thursday, February 4th to talk about his decision to come out as gay via a Time magazine article.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":13083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[5160,5149,821,5161,4169],"class_list":["post-13079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-ellen","tag-gay","tag-the-ellen-degeneres-show","tag-time","tag-tj-osborne"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 11:58:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/02\/tj-osborne-opens-up-to-ellen\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13079","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=13079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}