{"id":24059,"date":"2023-04-12T05:55:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T09:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=24059"},"modified":"2023-04-12T06:27:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T10:27:20","slug":"granger-smith-to-take-a-step-back-from-touring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/04\/granger-smith-to-take-a-step-back-from-touring\/","title":{"rendered":"Granger Smith To Take A Step Back From Touring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Granger Smith has announced that this summer&#8217;s Like A River Tour will be his last.<\/p>\n<p>He shared a video message to fans on social media on Tuesday, April 11th, explaining his decision to pursue a career in ministry and that he&#8217;s been working on a master&#8217;s degree at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.<\/p>\n<p>In the clip, Granger said&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI have felt a strong desire to pursue ministry. This doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m going to start a church, but this is a time of learning and growing for me. I\u2019m so hopeful about this future. (Wife) Amber and I have been totally united on this. I know there are going to be a lot of questions and I\u2019m going to try to stay engaged. I\u2019m not going anywhere. I\u2019m going to be here.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cq5xPfLAHOl\/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<p>Granger talked more about his decision in an <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/country\/granger-smith-announces-hes-leaving-country-music-for-ministry-exclusive\/?utm_campaign=peoplemagazine&amp;utm_content=new&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_term=64358e55b2f24c00010c24f2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview with People<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Like A River farewell tour begins on April 13th in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>Granger will also release a book called Like a River: Finding the Faith and Strength to Move Forward After Loss and Heartache on August 1st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Granger Smith has announced that this summer&#8217;s Like A River Tour will be his last.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":24060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[579,4628,4629],"class_list":["post-24059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-granger-smith","tag-like-a-river-tour","tag-ministry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 21:23:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/04\/granger-smith-to-take-a-step-back-from-touring\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24059","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=24059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24061,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24059\/revisions\/24061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}