{"id":8300,"date":"2020-04-09T11:35:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T15:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=8300"},"modified":"2020-04-09T11:35:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T15:35:12","slug":"a-luke-bryan-make-a-wish-kid-releases-song-about-luke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/04\/a-luke-bryan-make-a-wish-kid-releases-song-about-luke\/","title":{"rendered":"A Luke Bryan &#8220;Make A Wish&#8221; Kid Releases Song About Luke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a story of a wish\u00a0 that turned into a dream, thanks to Luke Bryan.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Four years ago, Luke Bryan met Ethan Payne, a 13yr old fan battling Cystic Fibrosis. He met him through the Make a Wish Foundation, backstage at a concert in Dallas. Ethan brought his guitar for Luke to sign and even impressed him with a cover of &#8220;Do I.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u2E0pa9l9n0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Luke asked him if he&#8217;d like to play it front of the 50 thousand in attendance that night, which he did. At the end of that performance, Luke gave him his OWN guitar to keep. That experience inspired Ethan to pursue music seriously. Last year, Ethan auditioned for American Idol.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/95lggXmreC8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Unfortunately, he was eliminated from the group round of the competition, and Luke was the one to have to tell him.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o9viiqTCiDM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>But Ethan- now 17- still uses Luke&#8217;s guitar, saying he&#8217;s not gonna let his disease get in the way of fulfilling his dreams.\u00a0 Now, his relationship with Luke has come full circle. His new song is called&#8230; &#8220;Luke&#8217;s Guitar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9n5acUpu8Fw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s a story of a wish\u00a0 that turned into a dream, thanks to Luke Bryan.","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":8303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 00:37:33","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\/04\/a-luke-bryan-make-a-wish-kid-releases-song-about-luke\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300","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\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8302,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300\/revisions\/8302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}