{"id":14223,"date":"2021-05-03T08:45:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T12:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=14223"},"modified":"2021-05-03T08:48:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T12:48:23","slug":"matt-stell-almost-went-to-medical-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/05\/matt-stell-almost-went-to-medical-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Stell Almost Went To Medical School"},"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\/cHmat2QSuio\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Matt Stell almost gave up music to go to Harvard Medical School.<\/p>\n<p>In his early days in Nashville, Matt was writing songs and trying to \u201cchase down\u201d a publishing deal, but initially, his music career wasn\u2019t panning out in the way that he had wanted it to.<\/p>\n<p>After going on an outreach trip to Haiti and working with doctors and pharmacists while on the trip, Matt started paving a path to attend medical school, and even got accepted to Harvard.<\/p>\n<p>But he achieved success in music and chose not to go the medical school route.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019m glad I didn\u2019t have to go because the story is way better that I got accepted and not that I probably would have failed out.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Matt is a pretty smart guy, he has a Master&#8217;s degree in Communications from the University of Arkansas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/music\/country\/matt-stell-shares-that-he-almost-didnt-pursue-country-music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE<\/a> to read the full story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Stell almost gave up music to go to Harvard Medical School.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":14273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1042,2920],"class_list":["post-14223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-matt-stell","tag-medical-school-harvard"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 23:17:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/05\/matt-stell-almost-went-to-medical-school\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14237,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14223\/revisions\/14237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}