{"id":103405,"date":"2025-03-27T10:30:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=103405"},"modified":"2025-03-27T07:46:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T11:46:48","slug":"make-a-wish-dream-comes-true-for-jelly-roll-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/03\/make-a-wish-dream-comes-true-for-jelly-roll-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"Make-A-Wish Dream Comes True For Jelly Roll Fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jelly Roll made a teen&#8217;s dream come true the other night in Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>An 18-year-old fan named Zachary from Nova Scotia, who lives with cerebral palsy and an intellectual disability, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/atlantic\/nova-scotia\/article\/ns-teens-make-a-wish-trip-leads-to-surprise-backstage-moment-with-jelly-roll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">used his Make-A-Wish to go see Jelly in concert.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His family just had general admission tickets, but\u00a0at breakfast the morning of the show, Jelly&#8217;s bus driver overheard their conversation and got them all hooked up with backstage access.<\/p>\n<p>When Zachary saw Jelly, he ran up to him and gave him the biggest hug. Jelly said, &#8220;You&#8217;re strong, buddy. You&#8217;re strong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the show that night, Jelly gave Zachary multiple shoutouts, and even dedicated the last song of the night, &#8220;Save Me&#8221;, to him.<\/p>\n<p>The whole crowd even started chanting &#8220;Zachary! Zachary!&#8221; at one point.<\/p>\n<p>Zachary&#8217;s mom said,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The way all the stars aligned, I can&#8217;t even put into words. It was a dream come true.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jelly Roll made a teen&#8217;s dream come true the other night in Ottawa.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":99315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[7617,557,2272],"class_list":["post-103405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-jelly-roll","tag-ottawa","tag-tour"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 00:35:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/03\/make-a-wish-dream-comes-true-for-jelly-roll-fan\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}