{"id":11096,"date":"2013-10-28T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=11096"},"modified":"2013-10-28T19:30:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T02:30:22","slug":"jenn-bostic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/10\/jenn-bostic\/","title":{"rendered":"JENN BOSTIC"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11097\" alt=\"Jenn-Bostic-Issue-No29\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Jenn-Bostic-Issue-No29.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Jenn-Bostic-Issue-No29.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Jenn-Bostic-Issue-No29-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1>JENN BOSTIC<\/h1>\n<p>HOMETOWN: Waconia, Minn.<br \/>\nINFLUENCES: Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt,\u00a0Stevie Wonder<br \/>\nALBUM: <i>Missin\u2019 a Man EP<\/i>, out September<br \/>\nWEBSITE: jennbostic.com<\/p>\n<p>At the age of 10, Jenn Bostic survived a horrific car accident that took the life of her father, a musician who taught her to play piano. To cope with the loss, she began writing songs. \u201cThe first time I sat at the piano after the accident, I shut my eyes and honestly felt my dad\u2019s presence next to me,\u201d she says. \u201cI poured my heart into those first few songs. The only way I could connect with him was when I played music.\u201d Bostic eventually earned a degree from Boston\u2019s Berklee College\u00a0of Music. Now living in Nashville, she recently earned five Independent Country Music Association Awards and completed a sold-out headlining tour of Ireland and the U.K. But for Bostic, music will always be rooted in humanity. \u201cWhen I started to focus on touching lives, that\u2019s when things started happening,\u201d\u00a0she says, \u201cand that\u2019s what makes me happy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JENN BOSTIC HOMETOWN: Waconia, Minn. INFLUENCES: Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt,\u00a0Stevie Wonder ALBUM: Missin\u2019 a Man EP, out September WEBSITE: jennbostic.com At the age of 10, Jenn Bostic survived a horrific car accident that took the life of her father, a musician who taught her to play piano. To cope with the loss, she began writing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[83],"tags":[7093,7258],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11099,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11096\/revisions\/11099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}