{"id":1301668,"date":"2018-12-20T08:25:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T15:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1801768"},"modified":"2018-12-20T08:25:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T15:25:26","slug":"old-dominion-take-their-own-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/old-dominion-take-their-own-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Dominion Take Their Own Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:647817?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\">17m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Life is short, so they made it sweet for the kids stuck at Sanford Children\u2019s Hospital in North Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>The guys in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/old-dominion\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Old Dominion<\/a> \u2014 Matthew Ramsey, Trevor Rosen, Whit Sellers, Geoff Sprung and Brad Tursi \u2014 made good on the promise of their latest single \u201cMake It Sweet\u201d when they walked into the Bismarck hospital recently with a very special plus one. Mr. Claus himself.<\/p>\n<p>The band brought Santa to visit the kids, and then posted a highlight reel from the day. \u201cSince Santa Claus is on tour with us for the next few days, we thought we\u2019d bring some Christmas cheer to some who may need it,\u201d Ramsey says.<\/p>\n<p>The smiles, hugs, high fives and fist bumps that ensue prove that the best things about Christmas aren\u2019t things. \u201cWe came to warm their hearts but they warmed ours,\u201d the band\u2019s tweet read. (It\u2019s also worth noting that the band is completely upstaged by Santa, and they are totally OK with that.)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">We came to warm their hearts but they warmed ours. \u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EWIRSt6tnB\">pic.twitter.com\/EWIRSt6tnB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Old Dominion (@OldDominion) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OldDominion\/status\/1075410576237625344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYou know that they probably have a lot of tough days,\u201d the band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kfyrtv.com\/content\/news\/Santa-Old-Dominion-visit-Sanford-Childrens-Hospital-502714671.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told a local TV station<\/a>, \u201cso it\u2019s just like when you see them light up and they\u2019re not thinking about anything else about how happy they are, it\u2019s awesome.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of our favorite parts of our shows too is just to look out and see the smiles because of our music so if we can do that with Santa and our music we\u2019re going to leave with a little bit of holiday spirit for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CJ9L4PewTuY?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\/CJ9L4PewTuY?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<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1801768\/old-dominion-take-their-own-advice\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 17m ago Life is short, so they made it sweet for the kids stuck at Sanford Children\u2019s Hospital in North Dakota. The guys in Old Dominion \u2014 Matthew Ramsey, Trevor Rosen, Whit Sellers, Geoff Sprung and Brad Tursi \u2014 made good on the promise of their latest single \u201cMake It Sweet\u201d when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1301668","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 05:01:26","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":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}