{"id":21257,"date":"2022-09-29T08:45:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T12:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=21257"},"modified":"2022-09-29T05:45:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T09:45:12","slug":"luke-combs-wants-to-inspire-other-chubby-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/09\/luke-combs-wants-to-inspire-other-chubby-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Combs Wants To Inspire &#8220;Other Chubby Kids&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Combs has been dealing with people &#8220;body shaming&#8221; him his whole life.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s something that infuriated his wife Nicole back when they were engaged. She actually hit up Twitter and asked people to stop.<\/p>\n<p>If Luke is angry about it, he holds it in pretty well.<\/p>\n<p>What he&#8217;d really like to do is inspire guys like himself who are letting that get in the way.<\/p>\n<p>He talked about it in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/arts-entertainment\/2022\/09\/22\/luke-combs-country-star\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent interview with The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There&#8217;s probably some other chubby kid out there that is self-conscious about the way he looks, and he&#8217;s a great singer. If he [overcomes] that because of something he heard me say, that would be a win for me to give somebody hope that things are going to be all right.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Combs has been dealing with people &#8220;body shaming&#8221; him his whole life.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":16012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[357,1941,6766],"class_list":["post-21257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-luke-combs","tag-washington-post","tag-weight"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 20:48:24","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\/09\/luke-combs-wants-to-inspire-other-chubby-kids\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21257","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=21257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}