{"id":17653,"date":"2022-01-11T05:55:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T10:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/uncategorized\/2022\/01\/michael-ray-gets-emotional-after-hitting-1\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T05:55:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T10:55:19","slug":"michael-ray-gets-emotional-after-hitting-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/01\/michael-ray-gets-emotional-after-hitting-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Ray Gets Emotional After Hitting #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Ray sits at the top of the Mediabase Country Airplay chart this week with his fourth Number One single, \u201cWhiskey And Rain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He posted an emotional video message to fans via social media on Sunday, January 9th, writing&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;WHISKEY AND RAIN IS THE NUMBER ONE SONG IN COUNTRY MUSIC!!!! Y\u2019all I gotta be real. It\u2019s been an emotional one today. Back when we were recording this song I would think about all the things I always loved about @garyallanmusic and the way his music spoke to me and my life growing up in Eustis. I hope this song has been there for you on lonely nights when you\u2019ve needed it, just like Gary always has been for me. One of my favorites of his goes, &#8216;life ain\u2019t always beautiful\u2026 but it\u2019s a beautiful ride.&#8217; Thank y\u2019all for this beautiful ride!!! Thank y\u2019all for loving this song!!! We ain\u2019t slowing down!!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CYheW0-JsH2\/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>&#8220;Whiskey And Rain&#8221; is the lead single from Michael&#8217;s seven-song EP Higher Education, which was released in August.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rTxXInO54Z8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Ray sits at the top of the Mediabase Country Airplay chart this week with his fourth Number One single, \u201cWhiskey And Rain.\u201d","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":16910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[3784,6093],"class_list":["post-17653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-michael-ray","tag-whiskey-and-rain"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 15:51:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/01\/michael-ray-gets-emotional-after-hitting-1\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17653","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=17653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}