{"id":78901,"date":"2021-01-25T08:45:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T13:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=78901"},"modified":"2021-01-25T06:21:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T11:21:18","slug":"garth-brooks-defends-handshakes-and-hugs-at-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/01\/garth-brooks-defends-handshakes-and-hugs-at-inauguration\/","title":{"rendered":"Garth Brooks Defends Handshakes And Hugs At Inauguration"},"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\/wXkAxvHxios\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Garth Brooks has been catching some flak for shaking hands with and hugging former presidents and first ladies while maskless during last week&#8217;s inauguration ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>But his rep told NBC&#8217;s Today Show that he had tested negative for COVID several times prior to the event, including right before hitting Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Garth was there to sing an a cappella rendition of &#8220;Amazing Grace&#8221; after Joe Biden was sworn in as president.<\/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\/vS7rT-37eMc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Garth also apparently borrowed fellow performer Lady Gaga&#8217;s glam squad to help him get camera-ready for the gig.<\/p>\n<p>He reached out to her on social media and thanked her for sharing her crew.<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1352073574903910404&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garth Brooks has been catching some flak for shaking hands with and hugging former presidents and first ladies while maskless during last week&#8217;s inauguration ceremony.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":78902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[5368,475,5355,5356,5357,5390],"class_list":["post-78901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-amazing-grace","tag-garth-brooks","tag-inauguration","tag-joe-biden","tag-kamala-harris","tag-lady-gaga"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 21:36:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/01\/garth-brooks-defends-handshakes-and-hugs-at-inauguration\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78901","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=78901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}