{"id":27537,"date":"2023-12-13T08:45:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T13:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=27537"},"modified":"2023-12-13T05:26:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T10:26:07","slug":"cody-johnson-on-the-year-he-was-so-broke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/12\/cody-johnson-on-the-year-he-was-so-broke\/","title":{"rendered":"Cody Johnson On The Year He Was So Broke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cody Johnson&#8217;s Christmas special airs on CMT tonight, and there&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/musicmayhemmagazine.com\/cody-johnson-recalls-heart-wrenching-family-story-of-a-time-when-he-was-very-broke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a part where he talks about a December long ago<\/a> when he and his wife Brandi were so broke ramen noodles were a &#8220;luxury.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;d just gone to his parents for dinner, and he put a $20 bill in a Christmas card before realizing it was the last $20 they had.<\/p>\n<p>Then on their drive home, Merle Haggard&#8217;s song &#8220;If We Make It Through December&#8221; came on the radio.<\/p>\n<p>He and Brandi started crying, but when they got home, he checked the mail and found his first two songwriting checks for $2,500 EACH.<\/p>\n<p>Cody covered &#8220;If We Make It Through December&#8221; on his 2021 Christmas album, and performs it again tonight.<\/p>\n<p>[tiktok url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@cmt\/video\/7310360155529448750&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;CMT Presents: A Cody Johnson Christmas&#8221; airs at 9:00 PM on CMT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cody Johnson&#8217;s Christmas special airs on CMT tonight, and there&#8217;s a part where he talks about a December long ago when he and his wife Brandi were so broke ramen noodles were a &#8220;luxury.&#8221;","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":19304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[868,5171,76],"class_list":["post-27537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-cmt","tag-cmt-presents-a-cody-johnson-christmas","tag-cody-johnson"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 05:05:00","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\/12\/cody-johnson-on-the-year-he-was-so-broke\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27537","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=27537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27538,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27537\/revisions\/27538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}