{"id":461878,"date":"2010-03-23T06:58:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T10:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=97808"},"modified":"2010-03-23T06:58:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T10:58:41","slug":"carrie-underwood-pays-tribute-to-fallen-tour-bus-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/461878","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Underwood Pays Tribute To Fallen Tour Bus Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An emotional Carrie Underwood broke down in tears on stage at a concert in Connecticut this weekend as she paid tribute to a driver who lost his life when one of her tour buses crashed in New Jersey early Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was carrying equipment for the <em>American Idol<\/em> star&#8217;s Play On Tour from Atlantic City, New Jersey to Mashantucket, Connecticut, where the recently-engaged singer was due to perform at the MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods that night. The truck crashed into an embankment off the freeway and burst into flames, killing the unnamed driver on impact.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"334\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5RXp52aAbQU&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5RXp52aAbQU&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-97808\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Carrie went ahead with her concert as scheduled, and dedicated her track &#8220;Temporary Home&#8221; to the late driver&#8217;s memory.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This song has a whole new meaning for us. One of our truck drivers actually got in a wreck and didn&#8217;t survive. This song means so much to me and it will be a little special tonight&#8230; I would like to dedicate this song to him and to everyone that knew him.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She finished the track to a standing ovation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/jApUsGBksdtJUIx94OsehekNrCU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/jApUsGBksdtJUIx94OsehekNrCU\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/jApUsGBksdtJUIx94OsehekNrCU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/jApUsGBksdtJUIx94OsehekNrCU\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An emotional Carrie Underwood broke down in tears on stage at a concert in Connecticut this weekend as she paid tribute to a driver who lost his life when one of her tour buses crashed in New Jersey early Saturday. The vehicle was carrying equipment for the American Idol star&#8217;s Play On Tour from Atlantic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}