{"id":8404,"date":"2020-04-20T10:14:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T14:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/uncategorized\/2020\/04\/thomas-rhett-says-new-song-is-much-needed\/"},"modified":"2020-04-20T10:20:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T14:20:17","slug":"thomas-rhett-says-new-song-is-much-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/04\/thomas-rhett-says-new-song-is-much-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Rhett Says New Song Is Much Needed"},"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\/O4LzvbE6yQI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Thomas Rhett is racing toward the top of the country charts with his latest hit, \u201cBeer Can\u2019t Fix,\u201d but people can&#8217;t stop talking about the song he released last week called \u201cBe A Light.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He tapped his friends Keith Urban, Hillary Scott from Lady Antebellum, Reba and contemporary Christian singer Chris Tomlin to join him on the track, and Thomas said the message needed to be heard right now.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019ve been wantin\u2019 to release \u2018Be A Light\u2019 since the day that I wrote it, and when all this stuff happened \u2013 I mean from the tornadoes in Nashville now to the COVID-19 \/ coronavirus \u2013 I feel like now there is no better time to release a song like \u2018Be A Light.\u2019 I just feel like the world was in darkness for a minute, and so I think a song like this can be really encouraging for people, and I am so proud of this song and really hope that this song can be an encouragement to people who are really going through kind of a tough time right now.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People can&#8217;t stop talking about the song Thomas Rhett released last week called \u201cBe A Light.\u201d","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":8405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1758,1708,823,1759,364,361,115],"class_list":["post-8404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-be-a-light","tag-chris-tomlin","tag-hillary-scott","tag-keith-urbamn","tag-lady-antebellum","tag-reba","tag-thomas-rhett"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 19:51:03","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\/thomas-rhett-says-new-song-is-much-needed\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404","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=8404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8406,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404\/revisions\/8406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}