{"id":25753,"date":"2023-10-03T05:55:51","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T09:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=25753"},"modified":"2023-10-03T05:28:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T09:28:25","slug":"toby-keith-leaned-on-his-faith-during-his-cancer-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/10\/toby-keith-leaned-on-his-faith-during-his-cancer-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Toby Keith Leaned On His Faith During His Cancer Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toby Keith was given the Country Music Icon Award at the &#8220;People&#8217;s Choice Country Awards&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Before the show, Toby and his wife Tricia Lucas walked the blue carpet together, and he stopped to answer questions.<\/p>\n<p>One reporter asked him about what he learned while battling stomach cancer.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m still getting taught. It&#8217;s up and down. Just lean on your faith. The almighty&#8217;s been riding shotgun for me . . . when you get in your darkest hallways, you just have to do what&#8217;s next. That&#8217;s what you do.&#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\/7AF0KlRpTkw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Keith performed &#8220;Don&#8217;t Let the Old Man In&#8221; during the show, and in a different interview was asked why he chose it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Because I&#8217;ve been going through the cancer fight, and it&#8217;s inspiring for a lot of people, [so] I thought it was fitting.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toby Keith was given the Country Music Icon Award at the &#8220;People&#8217;s Choice Country Awards&#8221;.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":25754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[1442,7896,4179],"class_list":["post-25753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-cancer","tag-peoples-choice-country-awards","tag-toby-keith"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 16:18:48","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\/10\/toby-keith-leaned-on-his-faith-during-his-cancer-battle\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25753","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=25753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}