{"id":1316986,"date":"2019-11-27T06:05:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T13:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1815143"},"modified":"2019-11-27T06:05:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T13:05:02","slug":"heres-what-carrie-underwood-is-thankful-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/heres-what-carrie-underwood-is-thankful-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s What Carrie Underwood Is Thankful For"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:685372?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\/shelburnec\/\" title=\"Posts by Craig Shelburne\" rel=\"author\">Craig Shelburne<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n6m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>About halfway through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/carrie-underwood\">Carrie Underwood<\/a>\u2019s 2012 album, <em>Blown Away<\/em>, there\u2019s a sweet song that seems to perfectly fit the Thanksgiving holiday: \u201cThank God for Hometowns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a video clip surrounding the release of <em>Blown Away<\/em>, the singer explained that she\u2019d heard a demo of the song (written by Ashley Gorley, Luke Laird, and Hillary Lindsey) just before driving home to Checotah, Oklahoma, to her high school reunion. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI listened to it, and the way things were worded, [it was] like a conversation with your mom,\u201d she noted. \u201cAnd these are totally things that my mom would say. These are totally things that would happen to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WsYwL27PqFw?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WsYwL27PqFw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>The album was a roaring success thanks to hits like \u201cGood Girl,\u201d \u201cBlown Away,\u201d and \u201cTwo Black Cadillacs,\u201d but there\u2019s something about \u201cThank God for Hometowns\u201d that still resonates with anybody who grew up in a small town, or anyone who\u2019s heading home for the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>As Underwood explained, \u201cThe line about \u2018Thank God for the county lines that welcome you back in when you were dying to get out.\u2019 That\u2019s me! That\u2019s me being in my small town, thinking, \u2018Ugh, I can\u2019t wait to get out and see the world and move away, and be a part of something so much more interesting than my little town.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0nUdQGW_5ho?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0nUdQGW_5ho?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>She added, \u201cWe all think our towns are no fun, right? There\u2019s never anything to do in the town where you grew up. But having that song, and now me being an adult, [I love] getting able to go back, see my parents, spend time there, and feel so blessed that I grew up there. And feel so lucky. I wouldn\u2019t have wanted to grow up anywhere else. And I was dying to get out when I was a teenager, but now I\u2019m so glad to get to go back, and I\u2019m so glad to have reasons to go back.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1815143\/heres-what-carrie-underwood-is-thankful-for\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Craig Shelburne 6m ago About halfway through Carrie Underwood\u2019s 2012 album, Blown Away, there\u2019s a sweet song that seems to perfectly fit the Thanksgiving holiday: \u201cThank God for Hometowns.\u201d In a video clip surrounding the release of Blown Away, the singer explained that she\u2019d heard a demo of the song (written by Ashley Gorley, [&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-1316986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 14:05:21","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\/1316986","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=1316986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}