{"id":1302237,"date":"2019-01-09T11:45:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T18:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1802096"},"modified":"2019-01-09T11:45:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T18:45:36","slug":"lauren-akins-preps-for-gig-at-country-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/lauren-akins-preps-for-gig-at-country-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Akins Preps for Gig at Country Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\">26m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Obviously, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/thomas-rhett\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Rhett<\/a> and his wife <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/laur_akins\/?hl=en\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lauren<\/a> have their hands full. Together, they are busy raising their two little girls Willa Gray and Ada James. But what\u2019s that old Benjamin Franklin adage? If you want something done, ask a busy person.<\/p>\n<p>So now, like so many working moms who can balance motherhood and a career, Lauren has taken on a new role as one of <em>Country Living<\/em> magazine\u2019s Home &amp; Family contributors.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made in the magazine\u2019s January\/February issue, and Lauren\u2019s stories will begin appearing in an issue this spring.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\" id=\"fafdf103\">\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"><noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;img&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/LaurenAkins_Instagram1-1547059233.jpg?quality=0.85&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/LaurenAkins_Instagram1-1547059233.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=481 481w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/LaurenAkins_Instagram1-1547059233.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=660 660w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/LaurenAkins_Instagram1-1547059233.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=768 768w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/LaurenAkins_Instagram1-1547059233.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=980 980w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/LaurenAkins_Instagram1-1547059233.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1200 1200w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/LaurenAkins_Instagram1-1547059233.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1500 1500w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/LaurenAkins_Instagram1-1547059233.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1800 1800w\" title=\"\u201dLaurenAkins_Instagram[1\" class=\"js-srcset-img shortcode-image portrait\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cMeet our new Home &amp; Family contributor,\u201d the magazine\u2019s editor Rachel Hardage Barrett wrote inside the latest issue. \u201cA Tennessee native and mother of two, Lauren Akins is passionate about old-fashioned outdoor play, easy at-home entertaining, and charitable causes, including Love One International. (You might also recognize her as the wife of country musician Thomas Rhett.) Look for her in future issues!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, her husband Thomas Rhett is staying busy himself, balancing family, music and touring. This spring, his tour will make stops throughout Australia, Hawaii and Canada before landing back in the U.S. for a long list of shows through October 2019.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nPYRBsGMKOU?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\/nPYRBsGMKOU?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\/1802096\/lauren-akins-preps-for-gig-at-country-living\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 26m ago Obviously, Thomas Rhett and his wife Lauren have their hands full. Together, they are busy raising their two little girls Willa Gray and Ada James. But what\u2019s that old Benjamin Franklin adage? If you want something done, ask a busy person. So now, like so many working moms who can [&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-1302237","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 07:17:18","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\/1302237","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=1302237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}