{"id":306976,"date":"2022-11-14T22:39:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T22:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=306976"},"modified":"2022-11-14T23:02:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T23:02:53","slug":"craig-morgan-talks-new-album-memoir-sometimes-we-go-through-things-to-become-a-better-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/craig-morgan-talks-new-album-memoir-sometimes-we-go-through-things-to-become-a-better-person","title":{"rendered":"Craig Morgan Talks New Album &amp; Memoir: &#8216;Sometimes We Go Through Things to Become a Better&#160;Person&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, Craig Morgan released his seventh studio album, A Whole Lot More to Me , and played a strong run of headlining concerts, fairs and festivals. But between tour dates and crafting an album &#8212; and unbeknownst to his management team &#8212; the singer\/songwriter and former U.S. Army soldier also secretly traveled to the red light district in Bangkok as part of the organization Exodus Road, where he worked as an undercover agent to help fight sex trafficking. &#8220;It&#8217;s modern-day slavery and it&#8217;s a huge problem and probably one of the least-discussed,&#8221; Morgan tells Billboard . &#8220;So I think it&#8217;s important that we as a people, as a human nation, we do everything we can to try to save and help other people. I still work in that arena. I&#8217;ve done numerous operations.&#8221; That story is one of several that fill the country music hitmaker&#8217;s recent memoir, God, Family, Country: Soldier, Singer, Husband, Dad &#8212; There&#8217;s a Whole Lot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, Craig Morgan released his seventh studio album,&#160;A Whole Lot More to Me, and played a strong run of headlining concerts, fairs and festivals. But between tour dates and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}