{"id":4895,"date":"2020-05-06T02:09:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T02:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=4895"},"modified":"2020-05-06T02:09:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T02:09:31","slug":"kid-rock-pays-off-walmart-layaway-items-after-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=4895","title":{"rendered":"Kid Rock Pays Off Walmart Layaway Items After Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NASHVILLE, TN &mdash; Days after Kid Rock found himself in hot water over his profane comments about Joy Behar, the Southern rock singer decided he wanted to spread a little Christmas cheer. Following in the footsteps of actor Tyler Perry, the singer tweeted Friday that he had paid off the layaway accounts at his local Walmart. <\/p>\n<p>Around 4:30 p.m., he tweeted: &#8220;@tylerperry Great idea! I followed your lead and paid off the layaway at my local Walmart in Nashville. Merry Christmas and God Bless You!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Tennessean reported that Rock paid off 350 balances at the store located on 3458 Dickerson Pike. The total amounted to about $81,000, store manager Tom Meyer said.<\/p>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.jerseytienda.com\/river-plate.html' title='camiseta river plate'>camiseta river plate<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kudos to Kid Rock for making such a gesture in our community,&#8221; Meyer said. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s a pretty Nashville proud moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rock himself reportedly called the store Friday morning to explain his idea. The artist&#8217;s manager later came into the store to make the payment. <\/p>\n<p>Shoppers were, needless to say, thrilled. A 3-year-old child named Dustin will be able to say his first guitar was bought by a music superstar.<\/p>\n<p>Rock&#8217;s actions helped one family in particular. <\/p>\n<p>Twitter user @IndicaStonerGrl responded to his tweet saying: &#8220;@KidRock We were gonna have to give up our kids christmas this year because we needed to pay rent but now, because of you, our babies will have a good christmas!! So thank you so much!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The gesture came days after the Rock was booted from leading the Nashville Christmas Parade. During a live interview with the show &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; from his Nashville bar, Rock used an expletive to describe Behar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;God forbid you say something a little wrong; you&#8217;re racist, homophobic, Islamophobic, this that and the other. People need to calm down, get a little less politically correct,&#8221; Kid Rock said. &#8220;And I would say, you know, love everybody. Except, I&#8217;d say screw that Joy Behar (expletive).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Multiple personalities on the show apologized for his comments. Rock himself also apologized for the remarks, but not the sentiment behind them. <\/p>\n<p><em>Photo credit: Oliver Contreras &#8211; Pool\/Getty Images<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE, TN &mdash; Days after Kid Rock found himself in hot water over his profane comments about Joy Behar, the Southern rock singer decided he wanted to spread a little Christmas cheer. Following in the footsteps of actor Tyler Perry, the singer tweeted Friday that he had paid off the layaway accounts at his local&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}