{"id":421,"date":"2018-12-22T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=421"},"modified":"2019-02-11T10:57:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T15:57:53","slug":"rascal-flatts-on-taking-time-off-at-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2018\/12\/rascal-flatts-on-taking-time-off-at-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Rascal Flatts On Taking Time Off At Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/igScPXNahf0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Gary, Joe Don, and Jay of Rascal Flatts have played a lot of holidays through their career, but as they gained success, Jay DeMarcus said they realized they had also paid their dues and started taking time off.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWell, I think several years ago what we decided to do was take a certain section of the calendar and just block it out for the holidays so that we would make sure that we were with our families. And as we started to have kids it became even more important to be with their wives and our families so that we could start those traditions with them. And it\u2019s harder when you\u2019re a new artist you\u2019re not so much as in control of your schedule as when you are touring on your own and you get to kind of dictate what your schedule will be. So it\u2019s just a commitment we\u2019ve made to each other and our families to try to take that chunk of time during the holidays and set it aside to be off and to be available for them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rascal Flatts will kick off 2019 with a performance at the Grand Ole Opry on January 9th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rascal Flatts have played a lot of holidays through their career, but as they gained success, they realized they had paid their dues and started taking time off.\u00a0","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[43,80,81,82],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-christmas","tag-ill-be-home-for-christmas","tag-jay-demarcus","tag-rascal-flatts"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 14:00:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2018\/12\/rascal-flatts-on-taking-time-off-at-christmas\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","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=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}