{"id":18208,"date":"2022-02-14T08:30:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T13:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/uncategorized\/2022\/02\/lauren-alaina-officially-joins-the-grand-ole-opry\/"},"modified":"2022-02-14T10:23:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T15:23:20","slug":"lauren-alaina-officially-joins-the-grand-ole-opry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/02\/lauren-alaina-officially-joins-the-grand-ole-opry\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Alaina Officially Joins The Grand Ole Opry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lauren Alaina\u00a0<\/strong>was officially inducted into the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday (February 12th) by friend\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Trisha Yearwood<\/strong>. She has appeared on the Opry more than 50 times since making her Opry debut in June of 2011, just after she was named runner-up on Season 10 of\u00a0<i>American Idol<\/i>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An emotional Lauren\u00a0stood in the circle\u00a0saying, \u201cEver since I was a little girl I dreamed of this moment. Both of my parents raised me with an appreciation for country music and all that it is, and all of the people who have come before me. I just want to say I promise to do everything I can to represent country music. I promise to represent this family well. I have felt like family here as long as I remember. Everyone at the Opry has always made me feel like family so for me to finally be officially in is the biggest dream come true of all time. Most little girls dreamed of their wedding; I dreamed of this. God Bless you guys and God bless country music.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lauren&#8217;s induction included a special video message from\u00a0<strong>Dolly Parton<\/strong>\u00a0who said, \u201cYou and I have a lot in common,\u201d said Parton via video. \u201cWe both started young, we love country music and we love the Grand Ole Opry and I\u2019d give a million dollars if I could be there with Trisha and Garth and everyone who loves you to get you inducted into the Grand Ole Opry. I just want to wish you the best in your whole career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trisha surprised Alaina before their performance of Trisha\u2019s classic \u201cWalkaway Joe\u201d by introducing her husband,\u00a0<strong>Garth Brooks<\/strong>, to the stage to play guitar for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lauren Alaina joins the Grand Ole Opry!","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":18209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 18:02:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/02\/lauren-alaina-officially-joins-the-grand-ole-opry\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18208","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}