{"id":607762,"date":"2026-08-29T00:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T00:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/607762\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T00:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T00:04:08","slug":"cried-all-night-why-dolly-rejected-elvis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/607762\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cried all night\u2019: Why Dolly rejected Elvis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Queen of Country, Dolly Parton, never met a question she couldn\u2019t answer with a joke, a wink or a line that stopped you cold. She once said she\u2019d rather be remembered for the music, and she will be. But, she\u2019ll also be remembered for her iconic style, authenticity, and being the most quotable person to ever grace any stage or screen. Dolly Parton you were, and forever will be, a legend. Picture: Getty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Queen of Country, Dolly Parton, never met a question she couldn\u2019t answer with a joke, a wink&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-607762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}