{"id":1319436,"date":"2020-04-14T07:39:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T13:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1820227"},"modified":"2020-04-14T07:39:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T13:39:35","slug":"lets-hope-the-new-york-times-is-dead-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/lets-hope-the-new-york-times-is-dead-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Hope the New York Times Is Dead Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:691976?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 \/>\n31m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The last full concert I went to was Ryan Hurd in Nashville. That was back on Feb. 6. So 68 days ago. And had I known it might be my last concert for a long, long time, I would\u2019ve done things differently. I would\u2019ve bought more merch. I would\u2019ve pushed myself up to the front row. I would\u2019ve stayed until the very last song. And I might\u2019ve had one last drink, to toast the kind of live music I live for. <\/p>\n<p>So <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/10\/magazine\/coronavirus-economy-debate.html?referringSource=articleShare\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">this story<\/a> from the <em>New York Times<\/em> has me filled with regret and imagining an unthinkable void. <\/p>\n<p>The newspaper put together a panel of experts to talk about how and when the world will open back up. Zeke Emanuel, vice provost for global initiatives and director of the Healthcare Transformation Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, had the scariest opinion of when Americans will be able to gather again at events like concerts and music festivals. <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how he explained it: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRestarting the economy has to be done in stages, and it does have to start with more physical distancing at a work site that allows people who are at lower risk to come back. Certain kinds of construction, or manufacturing or offices, in which you can maintain six-foot distances are more reasonable to start sooner,\u201d Emanuel said. \u201cLarger gatherings \u2014 conferences, concerts, sporting events \u2014 when people say they\u2019re going to reschedule this conference or graduation event for October 2020, I have no idea how they think that\u2019s a plausible possibility. I think those things will be the last to return. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRealistically we\u2019re talking fall 2021 at the earliest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My spring and summer calendar is completely lacking in concerts. But in the fall \u2014 this fall, not next \u2014 I have filled up my schedule with Tim McGraw, Brooks &amp; Dunn, Luke Combs and more. <\/p>\n<p>So if Emanuel is right, that just feels wrong. <\/p>\n<p>Because live music is everything to country fans \u2014 and all the live streams the country artists have been doing nearly every day and night <em>do<\/em> help \u2014 so I can\u2019t even picture what a year without concerts would look like. <\/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\/1820227\/lets-hope-the-new-york-times-is-dead-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 31m ago The last full concert I went to was Ryan Hurd in Nashville. That was back on Feb. 6. So 68 days ago. And had I known it might be my last concert for a long, long time, I would\u2019ve done things differently. I would\u2019ve bought more merch. I would\u2019ve pushed [&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-1319436","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 18:59:58","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\/1319436","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=1319436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}