“I’ve been struggling with a battle that I’ve fought to overcome for many years on my own. Now after some extreme health issues I’ve recently experienced, the time has come. The fight is over.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Mark also said that he’s decided to pull the plug on touring so that he can “take the time to get healthy.”<\/p>\n
He added that his goal is to get well, so that he can return to the road in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Chesnutt has been cancelling shows, and he’s finally opening up a little about what’s going on.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":26237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[1458,8199],"class_list":["post-26236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-health","tag-mark-chesnutt"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 17:22:26","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\/mark-chesnutt-addressed-health\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26236","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=26236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26239,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26236\/revisions\/26239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}