{"id":68279,"date":"2019-09-07T06:51:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T10:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=68279"},"modified":"2019-09-07T06:51:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T10:51:30","slug":"countrys-first-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/2019\/09\/countrys-first-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"Country&#8217;s First Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lynn was singing at the age of six, and she received lots of encouragement from her parents, both Country Music songwriters, Casey and Liz Anderson.<\/p>\n<p>Lynn&#8217;s mom wrote, &#8220;My Friends are Gonna Be Strangers&#8221; which became a top ten hit for Merle Haggard.\u00a0 Young Lynn was part of an informal sing along in a hotel room with Merle Haggard and Freddie Hart, and that led to a contract with Chart Records.<\/p>\n<p>Lynn went on to blaze a trail for women in Country Music, and she became a true superstar.\u00a0 She was named, &#8220;Artist of the Decade&#8221; by Record World in 1980.\u00a0 Her version of &#8220;Rose Garden&#8221; became one of the most successful crossover recordings of all time.<\/p>\n<p>Join me next Saturday, September 14 at 9:20, for more with Lynn Anderson!<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Norgate and you&#8230;every Saturday morning&#8230;on CKNX!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lynn was singing at the age of six, and she received lots of encouragement from her parents, both Country Music songwriters, Casey and Liz Anderson. Lynn&#8217;s mom wrote, &#8220;My Friends are Gonna Be Strangers&#8221; which became a top ten hit for Merle Haggard.\u00a0 Young Lynn was part of an informal sing along in a hotel","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":68280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 05:59:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/2019\/09\/countrys-first-queen\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68279","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\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68281,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68279\/revisions\/68281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}