{"id":31362,"date":"2025-03-07T10:30:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/uncategorized\/2025\/03\/dolly-parton-shares-public-love-note-after-death-of-her-husband\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T10:50:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:50:54","slug":"dolly-parton-shares-public-love-note-after-death-of-her-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/03\/dolly-parton-shares-public-love-note-after-death-of-her-husband\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton Shares Public \u201cLove Note\u201d After Death Of Her Husband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the recent death of her husband Carl Dean, Dolly Parton took to Instagram to share a \u201clove note\u201d to her family, friends, and fans.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DG3dkhBulhS\/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>Dolly told Billboard in a 2023 interview that they initially bonded over music while listening to the car radio together on the day they met.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI don\u2019t remember what it was playing, but it was loud and it was rock \u2018n roll.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She dedicated her chart-topping 2023 album, Rockstar, to Carl because he \u201calways loved\u201d the genre.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe harder [and] louder, the better.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dolly also shared a song on social media called \u2018If You Hadn\u2019t Been There&#8221; and dedicated it to Carl.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I fell in love with Carl Dean when I was 18 years old. We have spent 60 precious and meaningful years together. Like all great love stories, they never end. They live on in memory and song. He will always be the star of my life story, and I dedicate this song to him.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JPzwXz1RX4s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the recent death of her husband Carl Dean, Dolly Parton took to Instagram to share a \u201clove note\u201d to her family, friends, and fans.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":28913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3124,840,3011,102,2100],"class_list":["post-31362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-carl-dean","tag-death","tag-dolly","tag-dolly-parton","tag-husband"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 17:05:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/03\/dolly-parton-shares-public-love-note-after-death-of-her-husband\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31362","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=31362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}