{"id":309360,"date":"2010-02-11T19:48:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T00:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a88f852f970b"},"modified":"2010-02-11T23:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T04:37:00","slug":"hollywood-sign-transforming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/309360","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood sign transforming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0128779314c6970c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sollywood\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0128779314c6970c image-full \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0128779314c6970c-800wi\" style=\"width: 591px; height: 394px;\" title=\"Sollywood\"><\/img><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The process of covering up the Hollywood sign began this afternoon. Letter by letter, workers are changing the sign to read \u201cSAVE THE PEAK\u201d in red lettering. <\/p>\n<p>White fabric cover is being used to publicize efforts to raise funds to acquire Cahuenga Peak, the 138-acre parcel to the west of the sign.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe want to raise the visibility of it, so that people will support our campaign to save the peak, to save the land,\u201d said trust spokesman Tim Ahern.<\/p>\n<p> The Trust for Public Land has an agreement to purchase the land for $11.7 million, which is about half the $22-million asking price, Ahern said.<\/p>\n<p> Trust officials say they have raised about half the amount they need, but must have the total amount by April 14.<\/p>\n<p> &#8212; Amina Khan <\/p>\n<p><em>Activists begin covering up the iconic 450-foot-long Hollywood sign<br \/>\nduring an effort to prevent the building of houses there on February<br \/>\n11, 2010 in Los Angeles, California.\u00a0 (Photo by David McNew\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The process of covering up the Hollywood sign began this afternoon. Letter by letter, workers are changing the sign to read \u201cSAVE THE PEAK\u201d in red lettering. White fabric cover is being used to publicize efforts to raise funds to acquire Cahuenga Peak, the 138-acre parcel to the west of the sign. \u201cWe want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309360","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\/4841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}