{"id":2201,"date":"2019-03-12T10:49:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T10:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/?p=2201"},"modified":"2019-03-12T10:49:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T10:49:46","slug":"kelsea-ballerini-to-join-grand-ole-opry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/03\/12\/kelsea-ballerini-to-join-grand-ole-opry\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelsea Ballerini to join &#8216;Grand Ole Opry&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She has wanted this since she was 12 years old.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And last week\u00a0on 5th March, that dream came true for\u00a0Kelsea Ballerini\u00a0when Little Big Town joined her on stage at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville and asked her to become the country music club\u2019s newest member.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have the right words yet, but @littlebigtown just asked me to become the newest member of the @opry. This has been at the very top of my bucket list since I wrote my first songs at 12 years old,\u201d Ballerini wrote on Insatgram, \u201cand tonight the heart of country music wrapped their arms around me and asked me to be family. In tears over how much this means to me. Thank you thank you thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bup2p2jBjTm\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\">I don\u2019t have the right words yet, but @littlebigtown just asked me to become the newest member of the @opry. This has been at the very top of my bucket list since I wrote my first songs at 12 years old, and tonight the heart of country music wrapped their arms around me and asked me to be family. In tears over how much this means to me. Thank you thank you thank you. ?? \/\/ ? @johnshearer @gettyimages<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A post shared by Kelsea Ballerini (@kelseaballerini) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2019-03-06T04:46:49+00:00\">Mar 5, 2019 at 8:46pm PST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was the way the band asked her, though, that really made Ballerini\u2019s heart melt right there on that coveted Opry stage. She\u2019d joined Little Big Town to perform their \u201cGirl Crush,\u201d and she took the first line of the song:\u00a0<em>I got a girl crush\/Hate to admit it but.<\/em>\u00a0Then Karen Fairchild chimed in with,\u00a0<em>Kelsea Ballerini, will join the Opry?<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BuqDRrSBdsn\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Me: HOLY WOW @littlebigtown just asked me to sing Girl Crush with them at the Grand Ole Opry DO. NOT. MESS. THIS. UP. @littlebigtown: this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A post shared by Kelsea Ballerini (@kelseaballerini) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2019-03-06T06:38:38+00:00\">Mar 5, 2019 at 10:38pm PST<\/time>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After the initial shock, Ballerini walks off stage in disbelief. Then she returned for hugs and applause and more tears.<\/p>\n<p>The Opry shared pictures of the big moment on their Instagram as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She has wanted this since she was 12 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2202,"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":[39,40,72,382,26,36,86,71],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mgid_ao_image_cmt.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201"}],"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=2201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2204,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions\/2204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}