{"id":14660,"date":"2021-05-25T05:27:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T09:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/uncategorized\/2021\/05\/garth-brooks-recieves-kennedy-center-medallion\/"},"modified":"2021-05-25T05:27:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T09:27:25","slug":"garth-brooks-recieves-kennedy-center-medallion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/05\/garth-brooks-recieves-kennedy-center-medallion\/","title":{"rendered":"Garth Brooks Recieves Kennedy Center Medallion"},"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\/w0mq-r50YYs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Garth Brooks received his medallion at the Kennedy Center Honors on Friday, May 21st in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>He was surrounded by his fellow 2020 honorees including Debbie Allen, folk singer and activist Joan Baez, violin virtuoso Midori, and actor Dick Van Dyke at the event which was delayed from last year due to Covid.<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s event was held at the Kennedy Center\u2019s Opera House and was hosted by prior recipient Gloria Estefan.<\/p>\n<p>Upon receiving his honour, Garth told the crowd:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAn award is only as good as the names that are on it. That\u2019s it. When you walk in that door and you see the list of names and then you sit in this group and get to be a part of this\u2026pretty cool (Debbie Allen laughs), you know? And for the first time in my life, I don\u2019t mind being the weak link in the chain. I\u2019m in the chain \u2013 that\u2019s it. This is a cool thing. Just feel very, very lucky.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Kennedy Center Honors will air on CBS on June 6th.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CPMRsPtrdq-\/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":"Garth Brooks received his medallion at the Kennedy Center Honors on Friday, May 21st in Washington, D.C.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":14661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[56,2979,2980],"class_list":["post-14660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-garth-brooks","tag-kennedy-center-honors","tag-washington-d-c"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 07:11:51","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\/garth-brooks-recieves-kennedy-center-medallion\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14660","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=14660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}