{"id":473166,"date":"2026-09-23T15:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/473166\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T15:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:24:11","slug":"california-gears-up-to-celebrate-dolly-day-this-week-and-here-are-the-best-spots-in-l-a-to-honor-the-country-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/473166\/","title":{"rendered":"California gears up to celebrate Dolly Day this week, and here are the best spots in L.A. to honor the country legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secretlosangeles.com\/california-official-dolly-parton-day\/\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretlosangeles.com\/california-official-dolly-parton-day\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_0\" data-category=\"click_internal\">Dolly Parton\u2019s<\/a> music, movies, philanthropy, and unmistakable larger-than-life style made her one of the most recognizable figures in American culture. The country legend died on August 25 at age 80, leaving behind a career spanning nearly seven decades, more than 100 million records sold, and a philanthropic legacy that includes the <a href=\"https:\/\/secretlosangeles.com\/la-county-library-hello-kitty-card\/\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretlosangeles.com\/la-county-library-hello-kitty-card\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_1\" data-category=\"click_internal\">Imagination Library,<\/a> which has distributed hundreds of millions of books to <a href=\"https:\/\/secretlosangeles.com\/best-things-to-do-with-children-in-la\/\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretlosangeles.com\/best-things-to-do-with-children-in-la\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_2\" data-category=\"click_internal\">children worldwide.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, California has given fans an official reason to celebrate, as September 25 has just been designated as <a href=\"https:\/\/secretlosangeles.com\/california-official-dolly-parton-day\/\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretlosangeles.com\/california-official-dolly-parton-day\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_3\" data-category=\"click_internal\">Dolly Parton Day<\/a> statewide, with the date chosen as a nod to her iconic hit \u201c9 to 5.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u2019re looking to honor Dolly with a little music, plenty of sparkle, and perhaps a Dolly-themed cocktail or two, several <a href=\"https:\/\/secretlosangeles.com\/things-to-do-west-hollywood\/\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretlosangeles.com\/things-to-do-west-hollywood\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_4\" data-category=\"click_internal\">West Hollywood<\/a> spots are joining the celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton\u2019s music, movies, philanthropy, and unmistakable larger-than-life style made her one of the most recognizable figures in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-473166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473166","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=473166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}