{"id":32999,"date":"2014-05-22T02:05:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T07:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=32999"},"modified":"2014-05-22T02:05:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T07:05:09","slug":"did-you-know-kitty-wells-song-was-once-banned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/22\/did-you-know-kitty-wells-song-was-once-banned\/","title":{"rendered":"Did You Know Kitty Wells Hit Was Originally Banned?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/kittywells1-e1342547593371.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6382\" src=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/kittywells1-e1342547593371.jpg\" alt=\"kittywells\" width=\"599\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/kittywells1-e1342547593371.jpg 599w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/kittywells1-e1342547593371-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Did you know Kitty Wells, \u2018It Wasn\u2019t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels\u2019 was Originally banned<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kitty Wells\u2019 first hit was banned from NBC radio and the Grand Ole Opry \u2014 before becoming a hit, of course. \u2018It Wasn\u2019t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels\u2019 was in response to a song about cheating women. Wells became the voice for married women across America who were sick of watching their husbands \u201c<em>think they\u2019re still single<\/em>\u201d while they tended to the kids at home. Despite launching a new movement of female country singers, Wells would later tell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2008\/12\/14\/98201349\/kitty-wells-dont-blame-the-honky-tonk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR<\/a> that she was no feminist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0 TasteOfCountry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know Kitty Wells, \u2018It Wasn\u2019t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels\u2019 was Originally banned Kitty Wells\u2019 first hit was banned from NBC radio and the Grand Ole Opry \u2014 before becoming a hit, of course. \u2018It Wasn\u2019t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels\u2019 was in response to a song about cheating women. Wells became the voice for married women across America who were sick of watching their husbands \u201cthink they\u2019re still single\u201d while they tended to the kids at home. Despite launching a new movement of female country<a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/22\/did-you-know-kitty-wells-song-was-once-banned\/\" class=\"read-more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32999"}],"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=32999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}