{"id":17349,"date":"2019-08-06T07:25:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T13:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1809998"},"modified":"2019-08-06T07:25:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T13:25:09","slug":"the-best-advice-thomas-rhett-ever-had-from-his-father-in-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/the-best-advice-thomas-rhett-ever-had-from-his-father-in-law\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Advice Thomas Rhett Ever Had from His Father-in-Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:311644?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\">32m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Most Thomas Rhett fans already know everything about his happily ever after. But what about before the after?<\/p>\n<p>For years, I\u2019d heard the story about how Thomas Rhett and his wife of almost seven years Lauren Akins had been in each other\u2019s lives since first grade, but then a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodhousekeeping.com\/life\/entertainment\/a28591518\/thomas-rhett-wife-lauren-akins\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">new story<\/a> in <em>Good Housekeeping<\/em> went a little deeper.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019d been close childhood pals, yes. But then they grew apart and both moved on. Except that Thomas Rhett wasn\u2019t actually doing any moving on. He still had feelings for Akins as a young adult, and he admitted as much to her dad. \u201cHer dad called me and said, \u2019If you don\u2019t come over here tonight and tell Lauren how you feel about her, then I\u2019m going to tell her how you feel about her.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like, \u2019Well, that would be so weird,&#8217;\u201d he recalled.<\/p>\n<p>Hearing that story makes me wonder if Thomas Rhett\u2019s \u201cMarry Me\u201d \u2014 a song he penned with Shane McAnally, Ashley Gorley and Jesse Frasure \u2014 was inspired by that exact phone call. It had to be, right? That song tells the quintessential one-that-got-away story, in the most brutal way. As in, he finally comes to terms with how much he loves her, as he\u2019s sitting in the back pew at her wedding. <em>I remember the night when I almost kissed her\/Yeah, I kinda freaked out, we\u2019ve been friends for forever\/And I\u2019d always wonder if she felt the same way\/When I got the invite, I knew it was too late\/And I know her daddy\u2019s been dreading this day\/Oh, but he don\u2019t know he ain\u2019t the only one giving her away<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p_IwENcMPOA?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p_IwENcMPOA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\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<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/alisonbonaguro\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alisonbonaguro<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1809998\/the-best-advice-thomas-rhett-ever-had-from-his-father-in-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 32m ago Most Thomas Rhett fans already know everything about his happily ever after. But what about before the after? For years, I\u2019d heard the story about how Thomas Rhett and his wife of almost seven years Lauren Akins had been in each other\u2019s lives since first grade, but then a new [&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-17349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 20:51:37","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\/17349","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=17349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}