{"id":622311,"date":"2026-04-23T01:55:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/622311\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T01:55:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:55:26","slug":"fire-crews-thaw-rapper-drakes-giant-ice-installation-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/622311\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire crews thaw rapper Drake\u2019s giant ice installation in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">A giant ice installation commissioned by rapper Drake to promote his upcoming album has caused a stir in Toronto, Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">Fire crews have started thawing out the blocks of ice, citing &#8220;dangerous and unsafe activities&#8221;. This comes after fans started using blowtorches, sledgehammers, and other tools to reveal the album&#8217;s release date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">Mayor Olivia Chow told reporters on Wednesday morning that she supported the fire department&#8217;s decision to melt down the ice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A giant ice installation commissioned by rapper Drake to promote his upcoming album has caused a stir in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":{"0":"post-622311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-toronto"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}