{"id":380,"date":"2026-08-27T15:03:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iliridanews.xyz\/?p=380"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:03:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:03:21","slug":"petition-to-rename-nashville-airport-after-dolly-parton-reaches-over-100000-signatures-following-her-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iliridanews.xyz\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"Petition to Rename Nashville Airport After Dolly Parton Reaches Over 100,000 Signatures Following Her Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A campaign to rename Tennessee\u2019s Nashville International Airport after country music icon\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/dolly-parton\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-type=\"\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Dolly Parton<\/a>\u00a0is quickly gaining momentum\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/dolly-parton-dead-7565853\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\">following her death<\/a>\u00a0at age 80 on Tuesday, Aug. 25.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">A Change.org petition entitled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/rename-nashville-international-airport-to-dolly-parton-international-airport-d234875f-d5aa-4c57-8027-99bfd2594721\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-type=\"\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Rename Nashville International Airport to Dolly Parton International Airport<\/a>\u201d has gained over 100,000 additional signatures within 24 hours after Parton\u2019s nephew, Bryan Seaver,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dollyparton\/reel\/DceNXgPJyZ9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\">announced<\/a>\u00a0her death to the public.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-block_5-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_6-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">The campaign was first started by Tennessee residents Lydia Popovich and Dan Dion on Jan. 21, 2025. At the time, the petitioners requested the facility be renamed Dolly Parton International Airport \u201cto honor an icon who has given so much to our state and to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince her passing, tens of thousands of additional supporters have visited and signed this petition. The outpouring of support has reinvigorated our mission,\u201d Popovich and Dion wrote in a joint statement on Tuesday. \u201cDolly deserves to be remembered and celebrated. What a wonderful way to share her light and magic across Tennessee and the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A campaign to rename Tennessee\u2019s Nashville International Airport after country music icon\u00a0Dolly Parton\u00a0is quickly gaining momentum\u00a0following her death\u00a0at age 80 on Tuesday, Aug. 25. A Change.org petition&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iliridanews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iliridanews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iliridanews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iliridanews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iliridanews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iliridanews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/iliridanews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iliridanews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iliridanews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iliridanews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iliridanews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}