{"id":7093,"date":"2017-01-01T23:18:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T23:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com?p=2334444&amp;preview_id=2334444"},"modified":"2017-01-01T23:18:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T23:18:04","slug":"vandalized-hollywood-sign-briefly-reads-hollyweed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/vandalized-hollywood-sign-briefly-reads-hollyweed\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandalized Hollywood sign briefly reads \u2018HOLLYWeeD\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/vandalized-hollywood-sign-briefly-reads-hollyweed\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 No, Los Angeles residents, it wasn\u2019t your hangovers playing tricks on you. The Hollywood sign really did read \u201cHOLLYWeeD\u201d for a few hours on New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>Police were investigating Sunday after a prankster used giant tarps to turn two of the iconic sign\u2019s white Os into Es sometime overnight.<\/p>\n<p>The vandal, dressed in all black, was recorded by security cameras and could face a misdemeanor trespassing charge, said Sgt. Robert Payan.<\/p>\n<p>The person scaled a protective fence surrounding the sign above Griffith Park and then clambered up each giant letter to drape the coverings, Payan said.<\/p>\n<p>The prank may be a nod to California voters\u2019 approval in November of Proposition 64, which legalized the recreational use of marijuana, beginning in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Hikers and tourists in the hills spent the morning snapping photos of themselves in front of the altered sign before park rangers began removing the tarps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s kind of cool being here at the moment,\u201d Bruce Quinn told KABC-TV. \u201cI thought we came to see the Hollywood sign, not the\u2019 Hollyweed\u2019 sign. But hey it\u2019s OK with me!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While attention-grabbing, the prank was not exactly original. Forty-one years ago to the day \u2014 Jan. 1, 1976 \u2014 a college student similarly altered the sign, using curtains to make it read \u201cHOLLYWEED.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 No, Los Angeles residents, it wasn&#8217;t your hangovers playing tricks on you. The Hollywood sign really did read &#8220;HOLLYWeeD&#8221; for a few hours on New Year&#8217;s Day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6813,77,6826,9,6833,5019,1,3,6915,61,1736],"tags":[6818,2655,6828,6835,5022,6916],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}