{"id":498,"date":"2019-01-03T05:25:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T10:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/uncategorized\/2019\/01\/michael-ray-mourns-grandmother\/"},"modified":"2019-02-11T10:57:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T15:57:50","slug":"michael-ray-mourns-grandmother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/01\/michael-ray-mourns-grandmother\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Ray Mourns Grandmother"},"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\/ErZHI7lDLj8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Michael Ray is mourning the loss of his grandmother, who passed away this week. Michael shared the news on Instagram, writing a long tribute to his &#8220;granny&#8221; and playing Merle Haggard&#8217;s &#8220;If I Could Only Fly&#8221; in her memory.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BsG8oNoltYu\/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>His grandmother was the wife of his late grandfather Amos, after whom Michael&#8217;s latest album is titled.<\/p>\n<p>The singer wrote, in part,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I don\u2019t know what to say except thank you for all you did for all of us. Im so glad God gave me you as a grandmother you were the definition of strong independent, hard working god fearing, family woman. I\u2019m so glad Carly got to meet you she reminds me a lot of you in someways . . .&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, Michael is referring to his fiancee, Carly Pearce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Ray is mourning the loss of his grandmother, who passed away this week.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[42,44],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-carly-pearce","tag-michael-ray"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 11:56:08","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\/01\/michael-ray-mourns-grandmother\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","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=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/1579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}