{"id":9984,"date":"2020-06-19T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=9984"},"modified":"2020-06-19T10:20:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T14:20:29","slug":"thomas-rhett-wants-kids-to-have-normal-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/06\/thomas-rhett-wants-kids-to-have-normal-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Rhett Wants Kids To Have &#8220;Normal&#8221; Childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h_-80qQ5lVY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Thomas Rhett grew up in the music business, as his dad, hit songwriter Rhett Akins, was signed to a record deal and touring around the country when Thomas was a young kid.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their non-traditional lifestyle, Thomas said his dad made sure he and his sister had a &#8220;normal&#8221; upbringing, and that&#8217;s his goal now with his own three young daughters.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cGrowing up with a dad that sang music, it felt normal to me, but looking back at it, it was kind of a strange upbringing. But my dad made life feel very normal even though his life was not, and so I would say that that has been instilled in me, just, no matter what we get to do, whether travelling around the world and playing shows and then watching me sing, I do want them to stay as grounded and feel like they live as much of a normal life as they possibly can, and so I\u2019m super thankful to my dad for helping me do that, too.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CBWTBhmjei8\/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<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CBjohmnBUxW\/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":"Thomas Rhett grew up in the music business, as his dad, hit songwriter Rhett Akins, was signed to a record deal and touring around the country when Thomas was a young kid.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":9989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[4365,1012,4357,4026,4366,32],"class_list":["post-9984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-childhood","tag-children","tag-fathers-day","tag-kids","tag-rhett-akins","tag-thomas-rhett"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 14:48:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/06\/thomas-rhett-wants-kids-to-have-normal-childhood\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9984","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=9984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}