{"id":15318,"date":"2019-05-21T08:15:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T14:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1806889"},"modified":"2019-05-21T08:15:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T14:15:19","slug":"why-maren-morris-doesnt-take-her-gift-for-granted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/why-maren-morris-doesnt-take-her-gift-for-granted\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Maren Morris Doesn\u2019t Take Her Gift for Granted"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:672415?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">1m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>When Maren Morris was 11, and singing Patsy Cline songs in Texas honky-tonks, she probably never thought about the gift she\u2019d been given.<\/p>\n<p>But now that she\u2019s a little older, she\u2019s a little wiser.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a gift to sing well and make people emotional,\u201d Maren Morris told <em>Women\u2019s Health<\/em> for her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womenshealthmag.com\/life\/a27468063\/maren-morris-workout-health-interview\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">June cover story<\/a>. \u201cSo I don\u2019t take it for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meaning, she had to give up smoking cigarettes, which was often her go-to stress reliever. Instead, now she likes to hang out with her band, burn incense backstage, drink Casamigos tequila, and open up her Goddess Tarot app. \u201cWe like to vibe it out,\u201d she shared.<\/p>\n<p>When the conversation turned to her marriage to fellow singer-songwriter Ryan Hurd, Morris admitted that seeing <em>A Star Is Born<\/em> felt a little too close to home for both of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had no idea what I was getting myself into. I had to go to therapy,\u201d she admitted of how she related to Gaga\u2019s character Ally Campana. \u201cNot the substance abuse part, but there were things that happened to [Lady Gaga\u2019s] character that happened to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat movie rocked us both. We were like, \u2018We can never end up like this. Cool?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morris is currently on tour across the pond, with shows in Germany, Ireland and the U.K.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1806889\/why-maren-morris-doesnt-take-her-gift-for-granted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 1m ago When Maren Morris was 11, and singing Patsy Cline songs in Texas honky-tonks, she probably never thought about the gift she\u2019d been given. But now that she\u2019s a little older, she\u2019s a little wiser. \u201cIt\u2019s a gift to sing well and make people emotional,\u201d Maren Morris told Women\u2019s Health for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 20:29:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}