{"id":34376,"date":"2025-11-22T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=34376"},"modified":"2025-11-21T10:51:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:51:29","slug":"dolly-parton-misses-another-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/11\/dolly-parton-misses-another-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton Misses Another Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dolly Parton took to Instagram to share an apology video for missing the November 17 induction of her Dollywood theme park into the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA) Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>The 79-year-old country music icon, who is only the second woman inducted into the IAAPA Hall of Fame on her own, couldn\u2019t attend the ceremony due to ongoing health challenges that have kept her home for the past month.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHey there it\u2019s Dolly! And I sure wish I could be with you in person today, but you probably heard that I been dealing with a few health challenges this fall and my doctors told me to take it easy for just a little while.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She thanked attendees and reflected on Dollywood\u2019s origins and its impact on her community, with the theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, averaging nearly three million visitors a year, making it one of the state\u2019s biggest ticketed tourist attractions.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DRPtYF7jj0d\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton Misses Another Event Due To Ongoing \u201cHealth Challenges\u201d","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":34275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[5556,3915,5065,1458,10234,10235],"class_list":["post-34376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-dolly","tag-dolly-parton","tag-dollywood","tag-health","tag-health-challenges","tag-international-association-of-amusement-parks-and-attractions-hall-of-fame"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 13:53:56","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\/11\/dolly-parton-misses-another-event\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34376","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=34376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}