{"id":14753,"date":"2021-05-29T07:00:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=14753"},"modified":"2021-05-27T06:06:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T10:06:34","slug":"dierks-bentley-visits-cancer-patient-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/05\/dierks-bentley-visits-cancer-patient-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Dierks Bentley Visits Cancer Patient At Home"},"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\/dp4zf8I9H8c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Dierks Bentley paid a visit to a young fan suffering from cancer over the weekend in his hometown of Phoenix, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>He went to Baylee Barradas&#8217; house where he performed a few songs for her and even FaceTimed another of Baylee&#8217;s favourite singers, Kelsea Ballerini, so they could meet.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CPJp-qABI2C\/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<p>Dierks performed the song &#8220;Riser&#8221; and thanked the song&#8217;s writers Travis Meadows and Steve Moakler in the post, along with Kelsea for &#8220;jumping on a blind FaceTime call from me so Baylee could talk to one of her favourite singers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SouthernLiving.com reports that Baylee has sarcoma, and the cancer has spread to her lungs.<\/p>\n<p>She told local TV station 12 KPNX of Dierks,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The whole time through him playing I had no jolts in my leg, which is when my leg shakes. I had no pain, I was just very relaxed.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dierks told the outlet,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m still thinking about her. Every day she&#8217;s in my heart. I didn&#8217;t think it&#8217;d affect me like it has, her story, but it really has had a big impact on me.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dierks Bentley paid a visit to a young fan suffering from cancer over the weekend in his hometown of Phoenix, Arizona.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":14810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[1442,373,3356],"class_list":["post-14753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-cancer","tag-dierks-bentley","tag-kelsea-ballerini"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 23:07:15","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\/05\/dierks-bentley-visits-cancer-patient-at-home\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14753","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=14753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14786,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14753\/revisions\/14786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}