{"id":44925,"date":"2018-02-27T13:03:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T19:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=44925"},"modified":"2018-02-27T13:12:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T19:12:14","slug":"country-star-and-former-ole-miss-baseball-player-brett-young-engaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/country-star-and-former-ole-miss-baseball-player-brett-young-engaged\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Star and Former Ole Miss Baseball Player Brett Young Engaged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The &#8220;Hell Yeah Damn Right&#8221; singer proposed to his longtime girlfriend, <strong>Taylor Mills<\/strong>, at the <strong>Graduate Oxford<\/strong> hotel this month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ring-image1-sized.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"553\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-44928\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ring-image1-sized.jpg?resize=400%2C553\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Young spent some of his college baseball career at Ole Miss before transferring away. Despite not finishing out his collegiate years in Oxford, Mississippi, Young has a soft spot in his heart for the Velvet Ditch. He recently released &#8220;Hell Yeah Damn Right,&#8221; a tribute to<strong> Ole Miss<\/strong> tailgating, and sold out two nights at <strong>the Lyric<\/strong> earlier this month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe met in Arizona while she was at school at ASU, and we will likely get married there, so I thought it would be romantic to propose where I went to school,\u201d said Young to People magazine. \u201cWe were able to get a suite with a large covered patio and the hospitality staff at the hotel set it up while we were at dinner, so it was waiting for us when we got back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Young had a custom designed diamond ring made for the proposal that featured both of their initials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The two dated for six years starting in college but took a break when Young moved to Nashville for his music career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThere was never any bad blood,&#8221; said Young. &#8220;It was just the wrong time for us. We recently got back in touch and realized that we were both finally in the same place and knew it was right.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ER5z1SmaA0U\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/people.com\/music\/brett-young-engaged-taylor-mills-proposal-details\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source and photo credits<\/a>)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Hell Yeah Damn Right&#8221; singer proposed to his longtime girlfriend, Taylor Mills, at the Graduate Oxford hotel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":44927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[11077,11793,11792,11078,11791,5,642,7067,4,11795,11794],"class_list":["post-44925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-people","tag-brett-young","tag-country-star","tag-engagement","tag-hell-yeah-damn-right","tag-mercy","tag-mississippi","tag-ms","tag-ole-miss","tag-oxford","tag-proposal","tag-taylor-mills"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2018-02-26-Young-engaged.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}