{"id":31354,"date":"2025-02-20T08:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T13:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=31354"},"modified":"2025-02-20T06:34:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T11:34:44","slug":"john-mellencamp-says-willie-nelson-should-get-the-nobel-peace-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/02\/john-mellencamp-says-willie-nelson-should-get-the-nobel-peace-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mellencamp Says Willie Nelson Should Get The Nobel Peace Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should Willie Nelson get the Nobel Peace Prize? John Mellencamp thinks so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/podcast\/john-mellencamp-believes-willie-nelson-deserves-nobel-peace-prize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He told &#8220;Texas Monthly&#8221; Willie deserves it for his work with Farm Aid.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>John and Willie started it with Neil Young in 1985. But he says &#8220;it all stems from Willie,&#8221;\u00a0 adding, &#8220;Neil and I just carry water.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He says he&#8217;s always admired Willie&#8217;s determination and &#8220;ability to keep moving forward&#8221; no matter who tries to stop him.<\/p>\n<p>No musician has ever won the Nobel Peace Prize, but they&#8217;ve been nominated before.<\/p>\n<p>Bono made the shortlist in 2006 for his work to help end poverty around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Mellencamp Says Willie Nelson Should Get the Nobel Peace Prize.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":20623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[3992,3993,9420,3633],"class_list":["post-31354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-farm-aid","tag-john-mellencamp","tag-nobel-peace-prize","tag-willie-nelson"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 20:46:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/02\/john-mellencamp-says-willie-nelson-should-get-the-nobel-peace-prize\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31354","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=31354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31355,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31354\/revisions\/31355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}