{"id":23846,"date":"2023-05-16T08:45:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T12:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=23846"},"modified":"2023-05-16T08:53:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T12:53:18","slug":"dolly-parton-turned-down-the-presidential-medal-of-freedom-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/05\/dolly-parton-turned-down-the-presidential-medal-of-freedom-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton Turned Down The Presidential Medal Of Freedom&#8230; Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dolly Parton has now turned down the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom twice!<\/p>\n<p>She was offered by former U.S. president Donald Trump, and according to &#8220;The Today Show&#8217;s&#8221; Jacob Soboroff, she also said no to current U.S. President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>They didn&#8217;t discuss why, but they did talk about her new rock song &#8220;World on Fire&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>One lyric is, &#8220;Greedy politicians present and past. They wouldn&#8217;t know the truth if it bit &#8217;em in the ass.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So Jacob asked her what politicians she was talking about.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;All of &#8217;em. Any of em. I don&#8217;t think any of &#8217;em are trying hard enough. They worry more about their party than they do about the people. If we do what we felt was the right thing, rather than who&#8217;s gonna lose, who&#8217;s gonna win, who&#8217;s gonna look better if they do this, rather than working from the heart.&#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\/Oi9ib0aLYcA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton has now turned down the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom twice!","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":23789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[3915,7694,4152,7695],"class_list":["post-23846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-dolly-parton","tag-jacob-soboroff","tag-the-today-show","tag-u-s-presidential-medal-of-freedom"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 19:38:03","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\/05\/dolly-parton-turned-down-the-presidential-medal-of-freedom-again\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23846","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=23846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23848,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23846\/revisions\/23848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}