{"id":33014,"date":"2025-09-15T05:49:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/uncategorized\/2025\/09\/jelly-roll-met-the-pope\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T05:49:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:49:18","slug":"jelly-roll-met-the-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/09\/jelly-roll-met-the-pope\/","title":{"rendered":"Jelly Roll Met The Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jelly Roll just shook hands with the Pope.<\/p>\n<p>He shared the awesome photo on Instagram and captioned it,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;From rock bottom to holy ground . . . For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jelly shaking hands with the Pope is a LONG way from where he started.<\/p>\n<p>He has been very open about his past struggles with drugs, violence, and his time in prison. He still puts a lot of his energy into mentoring at-risk youth, trying to help them avoid the same mistakes he made.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOh09mIjESj\/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>Jelly was also part of the \u2018Grace for the World\u2019 Concert from Vatican City. Live musical performances will be held in St. Peter\u2019s Square for the first time in history to celebrate the Vatican\u2019s 2025 Jubilee Year.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOjtoSSDFaH\/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":"Jelly Roll just shook hands with the Pope.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":33015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[987,6626,6627,3995,6628,5495],"class_list":["post-33014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-concert","tag-grace-for-the-world","tag-hard-fought-hallelujah","tag-jelly-roll","tag-pope","tag-vatican"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 14:19:50","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\/09\/jelly-roll-met-the-pope\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33014","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=33014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}