{"id":81563,"date":"2021-07-05T08:45:56","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T12:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=81563"},"modified":"2021-07-05T05:40:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T09:40:23","slug":"a-lot-of-people-dont-know-that-darius-rucker-was-in-hootie-the-blowfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/07\/a-lot-of-people-dont-know-that-darius-rucker-was-in-hootie-the-blowfish\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lot Of People Don&#8217;t Know That Darius Rucker Was In Hootie &amp; The Blowfish"},"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\/ZyY5vRqn7V0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Spoiler alert: Darius Rucker used to be in a band called Hootie &amp; the Blowfish.<\/p>\n<p>And if you think we&#8217;re crazy for even saying that, there are real, live people who are not aware.<\/p>\n<p>He talked about it in a recent interview.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There are a lot of people that just have no idea. I saw a guy [online] say, &#8216;I was today old when I found out that Darius Rucker was the lead singer of Hootie &amp; the Blowfish.&#8217; I&#8217;m like, &#8216;Really?&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Darius has such a distinct voice you&#8217;d think people would put two-and-two together.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[One time] I finished a show, and this guy comes on Twitter and he goes, &#8216;Man, the show was great, but how come you played so many Hootie covers? I didn&#8217;t know you liked Hootie so much.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spoiler alert: Darius Rucker used to be in a band called Hootie &amp; the Blowfish.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":81565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[1951,2539],"class_list":["post-81563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-darius-rucker","tag-hootie-and-the-blowfish"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 20:41:06","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\/07\/a-lot-of-people-dont-know-that-darius-rucker-was-in-hootie-the-blowfish\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81563","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=81563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}