{"id":2375,"date":"2014-11-11T08:58:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T14:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/?p=2375"},"modified":"2014-11-11T11:44:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T17:44:51","slug":"2375","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2014\/11\/11\/2375\/","title":{"rendered":"Couldn&#8217;t Miss the Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, <a title=\"Happy Birthday Scotty McCreery!\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2014\/10\/16\/happy-birthday-scotty-mccreery\/\">MaKayla posted<\/a> about Scotty McCreery&#8217;s charitable contributions. Since that post received a lot of love from y&#8217;all, I thought I would share <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2014\/11\/10\/the-sign-a-woman-held-up-at-a-sold-out-countrys-stars-concert-had-him-pausing-the-show-to-honor-her\/\">this story<\/a> about Garth Brooks stopping a concert to recognize a fan who is undergoing treatment for cancer. Also, incredibly, he gave her his guitar. Here&#8217;s the video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Garth Brooks sings &quot;The Dance&quot; to cancer patient at Minneapolis concert\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/amz6mQkJcos?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I ran across this news this morning on my bus ride to campus and, I&#8217;ll be honest, I teared up a bit. Fortunately, I don&#8217;t think any of the other passengers noticed. It has to be one of the hardest and most rewarding parts of being a celebrity, this being called on to help people who are hurting or dying. Props to Brooks, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, MaKayla posted about Scotty McCreery&#8217;s charitable contributions. Since that post received a lot of love from y&#8217;all, I thought I would share this story about Garth Brooks stopping a concert to recognize a fan who is undergoing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2014\/11\/11\/2375\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,3,11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity","category-live-music","category-new-country","category-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2393,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions\/2393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}