{"id":128593,"date":"2017-09-08T13:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T18:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=128593"},"modified":"2017-09-08T15:40:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T20:40:17","slug":"troy-gentry-dies-in-helicopter-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=128593","title":{"rendered":"Troy Gentry dies in helicopter crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-128594\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/TroyGentryphoto2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/TroyGentryphoto2.jpg 138w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/TroyGentryphoto2-112x175.jpg 112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 138px) 100vw, 138px\" \/>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Troy Gentry, one half of the award-winning country music duo Montgomery Gentry, has died in a helicopter crash. He was 50.<\/p>\n<p>The group&#8217;s website says Gentry &#8220;was tragically killed in a helicopter crash&#8221; that occurred around 1 p.m. Friday in Medford, New Jersey. The group was supposed to perform Friday at the Flying W Airport &amp; Resort in Medford. The statement says details of the crash are unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Gentry was born on April 5, 1967 in Lexington, Kentucky, where he met bandmate Eddie Montgomery and formed a group based off their last names.<\/p>\n<p>The duo had success on the country charts, scoring five No. 1 hits. The band was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in 2009.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Troy Gentry, one half of the award-winning country music duo Montgomery Gentry, has died in a helicopter crash. He was 50. The group&#8217;s website says Gentry &#8220;was tragically killed in a helicopter crash&#8221; that occurred around 1 p.m. Friday in Medford, New Jersey. The group was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":128595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128596,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128593\/revisions\/128596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}