{"id":15005,"date":"2021-06-09T19:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T23:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=15005"},"modified":"2021-06-09T10:11:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T14:11:03","slug":"scotty-mccreery-still-gets-starstruck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/06\/scotty-mccreery-still-gets-starstruck\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotty McCreery Still Gets Starstruck"},"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\/WwtcHtHNAPc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Scotty McCreery says he still gets starstruck by his country music heroes.<\/p>\n<p>He gets tongue-tied around people like Garth Brooks and George Strait, but the ultimate was when he met Dolly Parton the very first time.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The most starstruck was meeting Dolly. Somebody captured a picture of it, and you can see the twinkle in my eye and the grin I had. It was quite a moment. I&#8217;m not sure what I said, probably didn&#8217;t make sense. It was pretty spectacular.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He said the stories about Dolly being a sweetheart are true.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s the queen of country, but she makes you feel like someone who&#8217;d be at your Thanksgiving table.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BDwohV3q3u8\/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>In the same interview, he was asked if he&#8217;s ever been mistaken for another celebrity.<\/p>\n<p>He said people always confuse him with Clay Aiken because they&#8217;ve both lived in Raleigh, North Carolina and competed on &#8220;American Idol&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotty McCreery says he still gets starstruck by his country music heroes.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":15015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[5556,3915,3511,3512,3548],"class_list":["post-15005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-dolly","tag-dolly-parton","tag-garth-brooks","tag-george-strait","tag-scotty-mccreery"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 19:51:29","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\/06\/scotty-mccreery-still-gets-starstruck\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15005","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=15005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}