{"id":9102,"date":"2020-03-17T18:55:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T18:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com?p=4016540&amp;preview_id=4016540"},"modified":"2020-03-17T18:55:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T18:55:50","slug":"denvers-annual-4-20-cannabis-festival-canceled-due-to-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/denvers-annual-4-20-cannabis-festival-canceled-due-to-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver\u2019s annual 4\/20 cannabis festival canceled due to coronavirus"},"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\/denvers-annual-4-20-cannabis-festival-canceled-due-to-coronavirus\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ss-inline-share-wrapper ss-hover-animation-fade ss-with-counter-border ss-inline-total-counter-left ss-stretched-inline-content ss-large-icons ss-rectangle-icons ss-without-labels\">\n<div class=\"ss-inline-share-content\"> <!-- Total share counter --> <\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"ss-total-counter ss-total-shares ss-share-inline_content-total-shares\" data-ss-ss-post-id=\"235548\"> <span>245<\/span> <span>Shares<\/span> <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- END .ss-inline-share-content --> <\/div>\n<p><!-- END .ss-inline-share-wrapper --> <\/p>\n<div id=\"gslideshow\" class=\"gss-container\">\n<div class=\"gss-info\">\n<p>Parris Spalding of Chicago, smokes a Backwoods blunt while sitting in the grass listening to musicduring FlyHi 420 Festival at Civic Center Park on April 20, 2019 in Denver, Colorado. (Seth McConnell, Special to the Denver Post)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Denver\u2019s signature festival that celebrates the stoner holiday of April 20 has been canceled.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers of the FlyHi 420 Festival attributed the cancellation Monday to the outbreak of coronavirus and COVID-19, the\u00a0respiratory illness it causes. The free event was slated to take place at Civic Center in downtown Denver with a headlining performance by rapper Lil John.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no immediate plans to reschedule as this virus\u00a0continues to circulate,\u201d organizers said, just five days after confirming to The Know that the show would go on.<\/p>\n<p>The FlyHi 420 Festival is one of many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2020\/03\/10\/colorado-coronavirus-events-canceled\/\">events that have been canceled or postponed<\/a> in the wake of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>As people prepared over the weekend to hunker down in their homes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2020\/03\/13\/coronavirus-denver-grocery-stores\/\">they cleared out grocery stores<\/a>\u00a0of toilet paper, hand sanitizer, rice and other food items. Dispensaries, however, said they were stocked full of cannabis and prepared to serve customers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/tag\/coronavirus\/\">Click here<\/a> for news and information on coronavirus and how it\u2019s affecting Colorado.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/newsletter-signup\/in-the-know\"><b><i>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter, In The Know, to get entertainment news sent straight to your inbox.<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/denvers-annual-4-20-cannabis-festival-canceled-due-to-coronavirus.jpg\" class=\"ss-hidden-pin-image\" data-pin-url=\"https:\/\/theknow.denverpost.com\/2020\/03\/17\/denver-420-cannabis-festival-canceled-coronavirus\/235548\/\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/denvers-annual-4-20-cannabis-festival-canceled-due-to-coronavirus.jpg\" data-pin-description=\"Denver\u2019s annual 4\/20 cannabis festival canceled due to coronavirus\" \/> <\/p>\n<div class=\"ss-inline-share-wrapper ss-hover-animation-fade ss-with-counter-border ss-inline-total-counter-left ss-stretched-inline-content ss-large-icons ss-rectangle-icons ss-without-labels\">\n<div class=\"ss-inline-share-content\"> <!-- Total share counter --> <\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"ss-total-counter ss-total-shares ss-share-inline_content-total-shares\" data-ss-ss-post-id=\"235548\"> <span>245<\/span> <span>Shares<\/span> <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- END .ss-inline-share-content --> <\/div>\n<p><!-- END .ss-inline-share-wrapper --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>Denver&#8217;s signature festival that celebrates the stoner holiday of 420 has been canceled. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52,6811,8264,2435,6892,6813,4995,77,9,1495,5019,1,3,7072,6923,61,1736],"tags":[2632,6816,8265,2436,6893,6818,4996,2655,33,5022,7073,6924],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102"}],"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=9102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}