{"id":16173,"date":"2026-01-15T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16173"},"modified":"2026-01-13T00:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:41:19","slug":"a-tribute-to-the-women-of-country-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/01\/a-tribute-to-the-women-of-country-music\/","title":{"rendered":"A tribute to the women of country music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/four-minutes-in-the-circle\">I sang at the Grand Ole Opry.<\/a> When I took my place, tourist version or not, I thought about the women of country music, often overlooked, who helped make me the person I am today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/four-minutes-in-the-circle\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16169\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/substack_opry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sang at the Grand Ole Opry. When I took my place, tourist version or not, I thought about the women of country music, often overlooked, who helped make me the person I am today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trip-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16180,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16173\/revisions\/16180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}