{"id":52523,"date":"2015-12-03T19:37:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T01:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=52523"},"modified":"2015-12-03T19:37:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T01:37:03","slug":"keith-urban-reflects-on-father-at-hall-of-fame-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/03\/keith-urban-reflects-on-father-at-hall-of-fame-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Urban Reflects on Father at Hall of Fame Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"keithUrban003\"Keith Urban Reflects on Father at Country Music Hall of Fame Exhibit<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Earlier this week, Keith Urban celebrated his very own exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. The singer reflected on his life as media, friends and industry previewed \u201cKeith Urban\u2026So Far\u2026\u201d. And it turns out, the biggest influence in Keith\u2019s career wasn\u2019t a famous musician, it was his father and his love of Don Williams.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018How do you know it\u2019s going to be good?\u2019 \u201d Urban recalled. \u201cHe said, \u2018It\u2019s Don Williams.\u2019 It hit me in such a way that I thought, \u2018I want to make those kinds of records, that people know are going to be solid and they go out and get it.\u2019 I want to thank Dad for starting me on this journey.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dad particularly always thought it was important that I dressed like a performer,\u201d the singer said. \u201cA lot of these country music talent quests I did in Australia, they often had categories for best dressed male or best dressed female and I often won. Sometimes it was the only thing I won.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was then that the bittersweet moment came to a head when Urban revealed his father had recently entered hospice care.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s probably only got a few weeks, if that,\u201d Urban said. \u201cI\u2019ve just been dealing with that the last couple of days. This has all come at a very strange time where it\u2019s typical of a career that has extreme highs and extreme lows all often at the exact same time. So (the exhibit) is bittersweet a little bit because (my dad) is the catalyst for all of this. My dad is the catalyst for me living in America.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cKeith Urban So Far\u2026\u201d runs through May. Admission to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is $14.95 for kids ages 6-12 and $24.95 for adults. The museum is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily with the exception of Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year\u2019s Day when it is closed.<\/p>\n

–\u00a0Posted by TawnyTucker CMTT<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keith Urban Reflects on Father at Country Music Hall of Fame Exhibit Earlier this week, Keith Urban celebrated his very own exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. The singer reflected on his life as media, friends and industry previewed \u201cKeith Urban\u2026So Far\u2026\u201d. And it turns out, the biggest influence in Keith\u2019s career wasn\u2019t a famous musician, it was his father and his love of Don Williams. \u201cI said, \u2018How do you know it\u2019s going to be good?\u2019 \u201d Urban recalled. \u201cHe said, \u2018It\u2019s Don Williams.\u2019 It<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52523"}],"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=52523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}