{"id":470791,"date":"2026-09-21T11:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T11:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/470791\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T11:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T11:46:16","slug":"california-introduces-annual-dolly-parton-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/470791\/","title":{"rendered":"California introduces annual Dolly Parton Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The US state of California is introducing its own day of remembrance for the recently deceased US singer Dolly Parton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Sunday, stipulating that Dolly Parton Day will be observed annually on September 25 from now on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The date was chosen because of a play on words relating to Parton&#8217;s famous song &#8220;Nine to Five&#8221; &#8211; written in figures, the date reads as &#8220;9-2-5.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;With this bill, we are not just establishing a day to celebrate Dolly Parton, we are creating an annual reminder to us, every year, to live the way she did &#8211; joyfully, graciously, and with a whole lot of heart,&#8221; said Newsom in the announcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The law honours Parton as a singer, songwriter, actress and philanthropist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Parton, who died aged 80, was a country music icon. According to the Californian government, she sold more than 100 million records worldwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Parton was also known for her charitable work, with her Imagination Library foundation distributing more than 300 million books to children worldwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The country music legend, whose hits include &#8220;Jolene&#8221;, &#8220;Nine to Five&#8221;, and &#8220;I Will Always Love You&#8221;, died on August 25 in Nashville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US state of California is introducing its own day of remembrance for the recently deceased US singer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[185149,7,9,8,44992,185148,16789,457,97759],"class_list":["post-470791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-academy-of-country-music-awards","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-country-music","tag-day-of-remembrance","tag-dolly-parton","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-music-legend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}