{"id":295032,"date":"2010-02-08T21:14:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T02:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0128777b001c970c"},"modified":"2010-02-08T21:14:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T02:14:28","slug":"hollywood-sign-to-be-temporarily-covered-lapd-tells-residents-not-to-worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/295032","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood sign to be temporarily covered &#8212; LAPD tells residents not to worry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"http:\/\/latimes.image2.trb.com\/lanews\/media\/photo\/2009-02\/45229132.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/latimes.image2.trb.com\/lanews\/media\/photo\/2009-02\/45229132.jpg\"><\/img> <\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles police Monday pulled the wraps off a surprise that an environmental group was planning for Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities disclosed that the Hollywood sign will be covered Thursday as part of \u201can international campaign\u201d and will remain draped \u201cuntil further notice.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The e-mailed \u201ccommunity alert notification\u201d to Hollywood residents urged that they \u201cnot be alarmed\u201d because the 450-foot-long landmark \u201cwill remain in place and there will be no changes done to the sign.\u201d<br \/>\nPolice said the notification was issued \u201cso we do not receive phone calls from worried citizens.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The temporary alteration is being planned by the Trust for Public Land, which is scheduled to announce a land preservation initiative Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the San Francisco trust, Tim Ahern, said late Monday that his group was still awaiting permission to cover the sign from Los Angeles officials and the Hollywood Sign Trust, which maintains the sign. \u201cThe Police Department jumped the gun,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Bob Pool in Hollywood<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: L.A. Times file<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles police Monday pulled the wraps off a surprise that an environmental group was planning for Thursday. Authorities disclosed that the Hollywood sign will be covered Thursday as part of \u201can international campaign\u201d and will remain draped \u201cuntil further notice.\u201d The e-mailed \u201ccommunity alert notification\u201d to Hollywood residents urged that they \u201cnot be alarmed\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}