{"id":38336,"date":"2026-10-22T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=38336"},"modified":"2026-10-22T07:23:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:23:54","slug":"country-hall-of-famer-john-anderson-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/10\/country-hall-of-famer-john-anderson-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Hall Of Famer John Anderson Has Died"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Country Music Hall of Famer <strong>John Anderson<\/strong> passed away yesterday.\u00a0 He was 71.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You might know his hits\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Seminole Wind&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>&#8220;Swingin'&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>, and <em><strong>&#8220;Straight Tequila Night&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The news comes as a shock, because John was just seen on Sunday at the Country Music Hall of Fame&#8217;s Medallion Ceremony.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He passed in his sleep.\u00a0 His family broke the news in a statement.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An official cause hasn&#8217;t been shared.<\/p>\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Dexte1DMizt\/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>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Country Music Hall of Famer John Anderson passed away yesterday.\u00a0 He was 71.\u00a0 You might know his hits\u00a0&#8220;Seminole Wind&#8221;, &#8220;Swingin&#8217;&#8221;, and &#8220;Straight Tequila Night&#8221;. The news comes as a shock, because John was just seen on Sunday at the Country Music Hall of Fame&#8217;s Medallion Ceremony.\u00a0 He passed in his sleep.\u00a0 His family broke the","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":38337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[3913,3888,11364,11365,11366],"class_list":["post-38336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-death","tag-john-anderson","tag-seminole-wind","tag-straight-tequila-night","tag-swingin"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-02 00:54:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/10\/country-hall-of-famer-john-anderson-has-died\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38336","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=38336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38339,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38336\/revisions\/38339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}