{"id":516,"date":"2025-05-01T06:13:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T06:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topfeednews.it.com\/?p=516"},"modified":"2025-05-01T06:13:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T06:13:54","slug":"tears-fall-as-blake-shelton-sings-god-gave-me-you-to-terminally-ill-12-year-old-in-a-moment-that-silenced-the-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topfeednews.it.com\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"Tears Fall as Blake Shelton Sings \u2018God Gave Me You\u2019 to Terminally Ill 12-Year-Old in a Moment That Silenced the Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2025, country star Blake Shelton paused his Friends &amp; Heroes tour to grant the final wish of 12-year-old Emily Harper, a leukemia patient at the Jimmy Everest Center in Oklahoma. Her dream was to hear Shelton sing her favorite song, \u201cGod Gave Me You.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On March 10, Shelton arrived at her hospital room with his guitar. He performed an emotional acoustic set, including \u201cAustin\u201d and \u201cHoney Bee,\u201d bringing smiles and tears to everyone present. Emily, clutching a bear named after him, lit up with joy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1719755\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Shelton has a history of heartfelt gestures and supports causes like cancer research, disaster relief, and music education.<\/p>\n<p>Emily passed away ten days later. During a show in Greensboro, Shelton dedicated \u201cGod Gave Me You\u201d to her, saying, \u201cShe\u2019s not with us anymore, but I know she\u2019s up there listening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His visit gave Emily and her family a moment of light, love, and lasting comfort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2025, country star Blake Shelton paused his Friends &amp; Heroes tour to grant the final wish of 12-year-old Emily Harper, a leukemia patient at the Jimmy Everest Center &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topfeednews.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topfeednews.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topfeednews.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topfeednews.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topfeednews.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/topfeednews.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/topfeednews.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topfeednews.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topfeednews.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topfeednews.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topfeednews.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}