{"id":27060,"date":"2024-02-07T08:45:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T13:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=27060"},"modified":"2024-02-07T08:50:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T13:50:51","slug":"garth-brooks-wish-for-his-62nd-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/02\/garth-brooks-wish-for-his-62nd-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Garth Brooks Celebrates 62nd Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garth Brooks turned 62 today, and in his weekly Facebook Live series, he said the best gift you could give him is everybody &#8220;getting along&#8221; and to just &#8220;love one another.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Facebook video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https:\/\/fb.watch\/q33v5jzg-v\/\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Since it&#8217;s Super Bowl week, the &#8220;get along&#8221; part reminded us of the time Garth almost DIDN&#8217;T sing the National Anthem in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>He was set to perform it at Super Bowl 27, and also debut his new music video for &#8220;We Shall Be Free&#8221; during the pre-game.<\/p>\n<p>The song was a social statement inspired by the Rodney King trial.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kmZ6sPPKJKI&amp;t=36s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>NBC wasn&#8217;t wild about the idea and wanted to yank the video last-minute, so Garth reportedly LEFT THE STADIUM 45 minutes before kickoff.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Bon Jovi was there, and they thought about using him instead.<\/p>\n<p>But Garth won in the end.<\/p>\n<p>NBC aired the video, and he sang a great anthem.<\/p>\n<p>The game supposedly started a little late because of it, and now all Super Bowl anthems are pre-recorded.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_0xAlYYZni4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garth Brooks&#8217; Wish for His Birthday? &#8220;Everybody Love One Another&#8221;","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":21782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[1041,3511,576,483],"class_list":["post-27060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-birthday","tag-garth-brooks","tag-national-anthem","tag-super-bowl"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 14:48:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/02\/garth-brooks-wish-for-his-62nd-birthday\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27060","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=27060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27063,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27060\/revisions\/27063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}