{"id":26709,"date":"2013-11-24T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=26709"},"modified":"2013-11-24T08:00:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T13:00:25","slug":"willie-nelsons-band-members-in-tour-bus-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2013\/11\/24\/willie-nelsons-band-members-in-tour-bus-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie Nelsons Band Members in Tour Bus Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26710\" alt=\"willienelsontourbus01\" src=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/willienelsontourbus01.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/willienelsontourbus01.jpg 750w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/willienelsontourbus01-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>Willie Nelson&#8217;s Band Members Hurt In Tour Bus Crash<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">SULPHUR SPRINGS, Texas (AP) \u2014 Singer Willie Nelson has suspended performances until December after three of his band members were hurt when their bus plowed into a bridge pillar in East Texas during rainy conditions.\u00a0The Texas Department of Public Safety says Nelson was not aboard in the weather-related accident around 3:30 a.m. CST Saturday on Interstate 30 near Sulphur Springs, 75 miles northeast of Dallas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Nelson spokeswoman Elaine Schock says Paul English broke his ankle, his brother Billy English suffered a bruise hip and Tom Harkin has a cracked or bruised rib.\u00a0Nelson has postponed his four remaining November tour dates: Robinsonville and Jackson, Miss.; Fayetteville, Ark.; and Lafayette, La.\u00a0Trooper Sylvia Jennings says seven people were on the westbound bus, including the driver who was dealing with wet roads and high winds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">\u00a0&#8211; AOL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willie Nelson&#8217;s Band Members Hurt In Tour Bus Crash SULPHUR SPRINGS, Texas (AP) \u2014 Singer Willie Nelson has suspended performances until December after three of his band members were hurt when their bus plowed into a bridge pillar in East Texas during rainy conditions.\u00a0The Texas Department of Public Safety says Nelson was not aboard in the weather-related accident around 3:30 a.m. CST Saturday on Interstate 30 near Sulphur Springs, 75 miles northeast of Dallas. Nelson spokeswoman Elaine Schock says Paul English broke his ankle, his brother Billy English suffered a<a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2013\/11\/24\/willie-nelsons-band-members-in-tour-bus-crash\/\" class=\"read-more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}