{"id":98476,"date":"2024-06-10T08:45:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T12:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=98476"},"modified":"2024-06-10T05:07:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T09:07:14","slug":"lainey-wilson-is-the-newest-member-of-the-grand-ole-opry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/06\/lainey-wilson-is-the-newest-member-of-the-grand-ole-opry\/","title":{"rendered":"Lainey Wilson Is The Newest Member Of The Grand Ole Opry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lainey Wilson recently sang on &#8220;The Voice&#8221; and afterwards Reba McEntire surprised her with an invitation to join the Grand Ole Opry.<\/p>\n<p>Lainey was formally inducted on Friday, June 7, and her induction ceremony was really special.<\/p>\n<p>Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood showed up to support her and had the honour of making it official.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C7-XVdqRntX\/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<p>Lainey said,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;From a very early age, I wanted to come here. Then I wanted to play here, then I wanted to be a member. And it feels like I&#8217;ve taken a million steps to get there, but it also feels like one giant leap . . . so, I&#8217;m very excited and honored.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C771JJAN5Dn\/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":"Lainey Wilson was recently surprised with an invitation to join the Grand Ole Opry.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":95302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[475,489,5964,710,1647,1926],"class_list":["post-98476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-garth-brooks","tag-grand-ole-opry","tag-lainey-wilson","tag-opry","tag-reba","tag-trisha-yearwood"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 22:21:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/06\/lainey-wilson-is-the-newest-member-of-the-grand-ole-opry\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98476","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=98476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}