{"id":26235,"date":"2023-11-15T05:55:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T10:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=26235"},"modified":"2023-11-15T04:56:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T09:56:10","slug":"tim-mcgraw-on-why-america-is-so-divided-and-how-to-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/11\/tim-mcgraw-on-why-america-is-so-divided-and-how-to-fix-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim McGraw On Why America Is So Divided, And How To Fix It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim McGraw just did a <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/collection\/person-of-the-week-podcast\/6330694\/tim-mcgraw-interview-person-of-the-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">big interview with &#8220;Time&#8221; magazine<\/a> and talked about why the U.S. is so divided right now.<\/p>\n<p>He thinks the 24-hour news cycle has a lot to do with it, and also the echo chamber we call social media.<\/p>\n<p>He said most only hear from a &#8220;small segment&#8221; instead of hearing &#8220;what the majority of people really think and feel,&#8221; and what we hear from that small segment isn&#8217;t always true.<\/p>\n<p>So how do they fix the divide?<\/p>\n<p>He thinks it would be a great start if everyone got back to realizing &#8220;we&#8217;re more alike than we are different.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They also had him name the one issue he cares about most. As a father of three daughters, he said it&#8217;s women&#8217;s rights.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I support a woman&#8217;s right to choose. That&#8217;s between a family, their doctor, and their God.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1722736654820004238&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim McGraw just did a big interview with &#8220;Time&#8221; magazine and talked about why the U.S. is so divided right now.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":23145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[3521,5161,2222],"class_list":["post-26235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-tim-mcgraw","tag-time","tag-time-magazine"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 15:49:41","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\/11\/tim-mcgraw-on-why-america-is-so-divided-and-how-to-fix-it\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26235","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=26235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}