{"id":3285,"date":"2019-05-22T04:49:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T08:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/uncategorized\/2019\/05\/charles-kelley-tells-story-behind-bracelet\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T04:51:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T08:51:07","slug":"charles-kelley-tells-story-behind-bracelet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/05\/charles-kelley-tells-story-behind-bracelet\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Kelley Tells Story Behind Bracelet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Charles Kelley&#8217;s favourite Memorial Day memories was the time Lady Antebellum did a &#8220;Salute to the Troops&#8221; show. They performed with soldiers who had served, and one of them honoured him with something special.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;One of the servicemen that was performing with us gave me a bracelet. When one of their brothers falls, a fallen soldier . . . they give him a bracelet in his honour. It has their name and all those things, and their numbers and stuff. But he gave it to me and said, &#8216;Man, if he knew that you were wearing it and being up on stage and doing this.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Charles didn&#8217;t want to take it. It didn&#8217;t feel right, but the soldier insisted.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;He&#8217;s like, &#8216;Just trust me, this would mean so much to him.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Charles was honoured and still has the bracelet. He often wears it on stage to remind himself of the men and women who&#8217;ve served and made the ultimate sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>In completely different Lady Antebellum news: The power went out at their show in Vegas the other night, so they went into the audience and did an unplugged version of their new song, &#8220;What If I Never Get Over You&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MU3pli8m7Dw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Charles Kelley&#8217;s favourite Memorial Day memories was the time Lady Antebellum did a &#8220;Salute to the Troops&#8221; show. ","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":3263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[734,364,749,750,363,740],"class_list":["post-3285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-charles-kelley","tag-lady-antebellum","tag-memorial-day","tag-salute-the-troops","tag-vegas","tag-what-if-i-never-get-over-you"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 21:23:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/05\/charles-kelley-tells-story-behind-bracelet\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285","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=3285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3286,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions\/3286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}