{"id":1318796,"date":"2020-03-17T06:51:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T12:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1819116"},"modified":"2020-03-17T06:51:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T12:51:41","slug":"dierks-bentley-opens-his-wallet-after-closing-his-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/dierks-bentley-opens-his-wallet-after-closing-his-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Dierks Bentley Opens His Wallet After Closing His Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:690800?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\"><br \/>\n22m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>On Monday evening (March 16), when most Americans were starting to seriously worry about how to be socially distant but still earn enough money to support their families as the coronoavirus was causing a very real panic, Dierks Bentley did this: He shut down his bar at 400 Broadway in downtown Nashville. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/nashville?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#nashville<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IxPchfILi3\">pic.twitter.com\/IxPchfILi3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dierks Bentley (@DierksBentley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DierksBentley\/status\/1239677417742090241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cJust gave last call at Whiskey Row Nashville as we close the doors for a while,\u201d Bentley tweeted. \u201cMy heart goes out to all the guys\/girls down on Lower Broad. Feels like yesterday that was me down there working for tips.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0cN3OgjMDIs?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\/0cN3OgjMDIs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>But here\u2019s the best part of Bentley\u2019s tough decision. He added in that tweet that he was giving each of the bar\u2019s 90 hourly employees $1,000 to help in the short run as they try to get a handle on the situation. Then he encouraged all the other bar owners up and down Broadway to do the same, and to take care of their bartenders, bar backs, waitresses, security, dishwashers and more. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLower Broadway is the heartbeat of Nashville,\u201d he said. \u201cLet\u2019s make sure we help the folks that help make the music happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>Stay tuned for more details on additional bar and restaurant closings (and re-openings).<\/em><\/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<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\/1819116\/dierks-bentley-opens-his-wallet-after-closing-his-bar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 22m ago On Monday evening (March 16), when most Americans were starting to seriously worry about how to be socially distant but still earn enough money to support their families as the coronoavirus was causing a very real panic, Dierks Bentley did this: He shut down his bar at 400 Broadway in [&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-1318796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 12:28:18","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\/1318796","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=1318796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}