{"id":382073,"date":"2026-08-26T23:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T23:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/382073\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T23:50:14","slug":"fl-musicians-venues-activists-pay-tribute-to-dolly-parton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/382073\/","title":{"rendered":"FL Musicians, Venues, Activists Pay Tribute To Dolly Parton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDolly Parton gave the world more than unforgettable music. She showed us the power of generosity, literacy, joy, authenticity, and making room for people to be fully themselves,\u201d Allendale UMC in St. Petersburg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/allendaleumc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">wrote in a social media post<\/a>. \u201cToday, we remember a life that made the world brighter, kinder, and a whole lot more fabulous. Rest in power, Dolly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/equalityfl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">In a social media post<\/a>, Equality Florida thanked Parton for her support of the LGBTQ+ community. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you, Dolly, for a lifetime of love, music, and unwavering support,\u201d the organization wrote. \u201cFor decades, Dolly used her platform not just to entertain, but to uplift and be a true ally. Here&#8217;s to Dolly: an unapologetic friend to our community, an icon for the ages, and a reminder that kindness and glitter can absolutely coexist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Influenced by her own upbringing and growing up poor, Parton was dedicated to giving free books to children through her education nonprofit the <a href=\"https:\/\/imaginationlibrary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Imagination Library<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The musician\u2019s family is asking her fans to make donations to the organization in lieu of flowers following her death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDolly Parton gave the world more than unforgettable music. She showed us the power of generosity, literacy, joy,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-382073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}