{"id":1780,"date":"2018-09-25T12:54:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T11:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2018-10-08T08:56:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T07:56:31","slug":"dustin-lynch-talks-about-his-opry-induction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/09\/25\/dustin-lynch-talks-about-his-opry-induction\/","title":{"rendered":"Dustin Lynch talks about his &#8216;Opry induction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first thing that happened to\u00a0Dustin Lynch\u00a0on the night of his Grand Ole Opry induction was finding a gift from\u00a0Carrie Underwood\u00a0waiting for him. And his first thought? \u201cIt\u2019s so cool that Carrie Underwood knows who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Lynch told that story backstage before his induction ceremony on Sept. 18, as he tried to put into words what the honor meant to him. And he fully confessed that the first time he was backstage at the Opry was when he was not exactly invited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy first time as a patron of the Opry, I snuck in backstage believe it or not,\u201d Lynch recalled. \u201cI can remember that night very well because I was scared to death. One, I was at the Opry for the very first time. Two, I wasn\u2019t supposed to be backstage, and I was afraid I was going to get kicked out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward all these years and all these songs later, and Lynch had a decision to make about how to spend his day getting ready. Should he spend all day thinking about the night ahead? Or just make his day as routine as possible? He chose the latter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1781\" src=\"http:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/maxresdefault-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"maxresdefault\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/maxresdefault-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/maxresdefault-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/maxresdefault-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/maxresdefault-676x380.jpg 676w, https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/maxresdefault.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lynch had had a songwriting session on his calendar for months, and he worried that he\u2019d be too excited to write. \u201cThe guys will for sure give me a break if I have to cancel on this day,\u201d he thought. But then, sanity prevailed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI decided instead of sitting around the house, and really working myself up counting down the seconds all day long, I was going to go in and write a song. I woke up with a big ole smile on my face and I got ready, and I drove into town and wrote a really cool song,\u201d he shared. \u201cI figured staying busy would put me in a better head space for tonight instead of sitting around and waiting on the night to start.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When he finally did take the Opry stage, he had to stop singing for a moment just to acknowledge how much he adores Reba. \u201cI cannot believe what just happened. Reba McEntire just gave me a hug. That is the perfect girl, and I know they\u2019re getting good at this cloning stuff, but if we could clone another Reba,\u201d he said, \u201cthe world would be a better place.\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe  id=\"_ytid_38099\"  width=\"676\" height=\"380\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EuiyfA52Buc?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=1&autohide=2&hl=en_US&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first thing that happened to\u00a0Dustin Lynch\u00a0on the night of his Grand Ole Opry induction was finding a gift from\u00a0Carrie Underwood\u00a0waiting for him. And his first thought? \u201cIt\u2019s so cool that Carrie Underwood knows who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[39,40,289,72,290],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mgid_ao_image_cmt-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1832,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions\/1832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}