{"id":5752,"date":"2019-10-23T16:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T20:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=5752"},"modified":"2019-10-23T11:50:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T15:50:06","slug":"luke-bryan-turns-the-opry-pink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/10\/luke-bryan-turns-the-opry-pink\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Bryan Turns The Opry Pink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Bryan flipped the switch on the Grand Ole Opry\u2019s signature barn backdrop on Tuesday, October 22nd turning it pink with a two-show edition of Opry Goes Pink to celebrate October as breast cancer awareness month.<\/p>\n<p>He also took the stage to perform an intimate and rare acoustic set on both shows.<\/p>\n<p>While Luke has been fortunate enough not to be personally touched by breast cancer within his family, he sais that he&#8217;s always moved when he spots fans fighting the disease in the crowd at his concert.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The big thing that I always notice is the fans at my concerts that have the signs up, you know, they have a pink sign &#8212; &#8216;last chemo treatment today,&#8217; &#8216;beating breast cancer&#8217; &#8212; and that always is something that . . . that visual is always something that I leave the show with.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>During the show, Luke was surprised with the ACM Album of the Decade award for his 2013 album, Crash My Party.<\/p>\n<p>He was joined on the show by Anita Cochran, Sara Evans, Craig Morgan, Travis Tritt and the Oak Ridge Boys.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B38g5-HnMP1\/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":"Luke Bryan flipped the switch on the Grand Ole Opry\u2019s signature barn backdrop, turning it pink with a two-show edition of Opry Goes Pink to celebrate October as breast cancer awareness month.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":5172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1256,108,34,1257],"class_list":["post-5752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-breast-cancer-awareness-month","tag-grand-ole-opry","tag-luke-bryan","tag-opry-goes-pink"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 04:00:15","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\/10\/luke-bryan-turns-the-opry-pink\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752","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=5752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}