{"id":22963,"date":"2023-03-06T05:55:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T10:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=22963"},"modified":"2023-03-06T04:56:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T09:56:20","slug":"blake-sheltons-first-big-purchase-was-a-bulldozer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/03\/blake-sheltons-first-big-purchase-was-a-bulldozer\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Shelton&#8217;s First Big Purchase Was A Bulldozer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blake Shelton&#8217;s love of Kubota tractors goes back a long way.<\/p>\n<p>He told &#8220;Jimmy Kimmel&#8221; that his late father used to sell Kubotas, and that&#8217;s why he has &#8220;a bunch of &#8217;em&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, his first big purchase when he made it, was heavy equipment.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;One of the first things I bought when I had a hit as a country artist . . . because you&#8217;re not crap in country music unless you have your own bulldozer. You really haven&#8217;t made it. You&#8217;re not over the hump. [So] I bought a bulldozer.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ovOOvC05O8U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blake Shelton&#8217;s love of Kubota tractors goes back a long way.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":21361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[956,7490,4030,1290,6898],"class_list":["post-22963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-blake-shelton","tag-bulldozer","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","tag-kubota"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 18:41:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/03\/blake-sheltons-first-big-purchase-was-a-bulldozer\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22963","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=22963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}