{"id":606812,"date":"2026-09-05T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/606812\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T15:00:09","slug":"everything-about-her-was-east-tennessee-the-places-that-shaped-dolly-parton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/606812\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Everything about her was East Tennessee’: The places that shaped Dolly Parton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sevierville: See the bronze statue of Parton outside the Sevier County Courthouse and The Pines<\/a>, where she performed for a paying audience for the first time at just 10 years old.<\/p>\n

RCA Studio B<\/a>, Nashville: Visit the legendary recording studio on Music Row where Dolly Parton and other iconic artists like Elvis Presley recorded some of their greatest hits.<\/p>\n

The Country Music Hall of Fame<\/a>, Nashville: A must-visit Nashville institution that chronicles the history of country music through artefacts, exhibits and the stories of the artists who trailblazed the genre.<\/p>\n

Dollywood<\/a>, Pigeon Forge: Set in the Smoky Mountains that Parton loved so dearly, Dollywood takes guests on a journey through the singer’s roots, from an exact replica of her childhood two-room cabin to the Dolly Parton Experience<\/a>, which displays childhood memorabilia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sevierville: See the bronze statue of Parton outside the Sevier County Courthouse and The Pines, where she performed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":["post-606812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}