{"id":7924,"date":"2020-03-17T15:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T19:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=7924"},"modified":"2020-03-17T13:33:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T17:33:51","slug":"grand-ole-opry-closes-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/03\/grand-ole-opry-closes-doors\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Ole Opry Closes Doors"},"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\/eqayVVt-0zo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Both the Grand Ole Opry and the Country Music Hall of Fame have seen unprecedented closings due to coronavirus fears.<\/p>\n<p>The Opry closed its doors to a live audience beginning this past weekend and has cancelled all shows except for Saturday night performances until April 4th.<\/p>\n<p>Those Saturday night shows can only be heard via opry.com and wsmonline.com, as well as on Sirius XM satellite radio.<\/p>\n<p>This is only the second time the Opry has ever cancelled a show. The first was in 1968 when a citywide curfew was imposed in Nashville following the assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B9vFRZfnUJS\/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>The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum has closed its doors for the rest of the month, out of &#8220;an abundance of caution&#8221; relating to COVID-19. The museum, including Hatch Show Print, the CMA Theater, and tours of RCA Studio B on Music Row will remain closed through March 31st.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B9r5XyXob0B\/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":"Both the Grand Ole Opry and the Country Music Hall of Fame have seen unprecedented closings due to coronavirus fears.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":7926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1655,933,1660,108,62],"class_list":["post-7924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-country-music-hall-of-fame-and-museum","tag-covid-19","tag-grand-ole-opry","tag-nashville"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 15:07:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/03\/grand-ole-opry-closes-doors\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7924","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=7924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}