{"id":419762,"date":"2025-12-02T15:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/419762\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T15:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:30:12","slug":"neal-mccoy-to-be-inducted-into-texas-cowboy-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/419762\/","title":{"rendered":"Neal McCoy to be inducted into Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">FORT WORTH, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; The Texas Cowboy Hall of fame has announced country music icon and Jacksonville native Neal McCoy as the recipient of the 2026 \u201cSpirit of Texas Award.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On their website, the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame describes McCoy as a \u201cTexas-born country music legend whose energy, charisma, and patriotism have made him one of the most beloved entertainers in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">McCoy, who was born in Jacksonville and now lives in Longview, has won numerous awards in country music, including his induction into the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The induction ceremony is set to take place March 26 at Billy Bob\u2019s Texas in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The TCHOF is home to more than 140 inductees who represent the best of the best in ranching, business, entertainment, rodeo and agriculture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the TCHOF, The \u201cSpirit of Texas Award\u201d was established to celebrate the uniqueness of Texas and Texans. It recognizes individuality, achievement, style, independent, innovative and forward thinking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For more information and to purchase tickets to the induction ceremony, you can visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/tchof.ejoinme.org\/2026-tchof-induction\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/tchof.ejoinme.org\/2026-tchof-induction\">Hall of Fame\u2019s website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; The Texas Cowboy Hall of fame has announced country music icon and Jacksonville&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":419763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,3988,7371,7372,196369,358,196370,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-419762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-country-music","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-neal-mccoy","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-texas-cowboy-hall-of-fame","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}