{"id":9255,"date":"2020-07-08T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=9255"},"modified":"2020-07-08T08:46:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T12:46:11","slug":"granger-smith-plays-concert-with-physical-distancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/07\/granger-smith-plays-concert-with-physical-distancing\/","title":{"rendered":"Granger Smith Plays Concert With Physical Distancing"},"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\/UvlWF4g8XA0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Granger Smith has created a blueprint for social distancing at concerts and he\u2019s using it.<\/p>\n<p>He came up with the plan for his 4th of July show and it included every imaginable scenario including seating, distance from the stage (about 30 feet), bathroom lines, and how fans leave a venue.<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1279599110023151631&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>His crew is not allowed to take off their masks and he and the band only take theirs off as they step on stage.<\/p>\n<p>It even includes a plan for if the fans rush to the stage. That would mean walking off the stage and there would be a PA announcement that the show would not continue until everything gets back in order.<\/p>\n<p>To assure distancing at last weekend\u2019s concert, he only sold 3,500 tickets for an outdoor venue that holds 12,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>The idea for the blueprint came about after the backlash Chris Janson and Chase Rice received from playing to packed crowds.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CCRR9gmJGaZ\/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":"Granger Smith has created a blueprint for social distancing at concerts and he\u2019s using it.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":9257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[987,1655,1660,579,2076,408],"class_list":["post-9255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-concert","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-granger-smith","tag-physical-distancing","tag-texas"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 17:18:57","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\/07\/granger-smith-plays-concert-with-physical-distancing\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255","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=9255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}