{"id":27991,"date":"2024-02-17T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=27991"},"modified":"2024-02-15T11:03:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T16:03:13","slug":"luke-bryan-to-showcase-hometown-on-american-idol-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/02\/luke-bryan-to-showcase-hometown-on-american-idol-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Bryan To Showcase Hometown On American Idol Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Bryan\u2019s hometown will be on display when the upcoming 22nd season of American Idol premieres on Sunday, February 18th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/luke-bryan-georgia-hometown-photos-american-idol-1235607790\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Leesburg, Georgia native told Billboard, <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cTo be able to bring Lionel and Katy to my hometown was a real big deal. Growing up I I was a Lionel fan and he has been such a huge inspiration to my music. So now having Lionel [Richie] and Katy [Perry] as a friends, it was so special to show them how I grew up and what made me who I am. I was on 10 the whole day!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The tour includes Leesburg High School, his favourite fishing spot along the Flint River, and his family\u2019s peanut mill.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C3LYul7O7hZ\/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":"Luke Bryan\u2019s hometown will be on display when the upcoming 22nd season of American Idol premieres on Sunday, February 18th.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":16822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[410,5311,336,5312,446,34],"class_list":["post-27991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-american-idol","tag-hometown","tag-katy-perry","tag-leesburg-georgia","tag-lionel-richie","tag-luke-bryan"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 02:49:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/02\/luke-bryan-to-showcase-hometown-on-american-idol-premiere\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27991","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=27991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}