{"id":21931,"date":"2022-11-29T05:50:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T10:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=21931"},"modified":"2022-11-29T05:46:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T10:46:55","slug":"brantley-gilbert-is-california-sober","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/11\/brantley-gilbert-is-california-sober\/","title":{"rendered":"Brantley Gilbert Is &#8220;California Sober&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brantley Gilbert took his <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/country\/brantley-gilbert-alcoholism-pain-pill-addiction-recovery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last drink on December 18th, 2011<\/a>, but that doesn&#8217;t mean he&#8217;s been totally clean since then.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview, he was asked how long he&#8217;s been sober.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;To be completely honest and transparent, I have to be respectful to the folks in the recovery community that are absolutely sober. I have to be careful with the definition of sober. I&#8217;m California Sober if that makes any sense. I&#8217;m a Willie Nelson fan.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In his case, that means he smokes weed but stays away from everything else.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re struggling with addiction and thinking about following Brantley&#8217;s lead, he recommends getting help first.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I really try to turn people on to the professionals who are trained, [because ] treatment is really the only way to go.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brantley Gilbert took his last drink on December 18th, 2011, but that doesn&#8217;t mean he&#8217;s been totally clean since then.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":18767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[2977,7224],"class_list":["post-21931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-brantley-gilbert","tag-california-sober"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 17:22:34","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\/11\/brantley-gilbert-is-california-sober\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21931","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=21931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21932,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21931\/revisions\/21932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}