{"id":34922,"date":"2025-07-03T09:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/34922\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T09:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:20:07","slug":"pictures-of-the-red-white-blue-to-do-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/34922\/","title":{"rendered":"Pictures of the Red, White, &#038; Blue To-Do parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"inq-p text-primary \">Whimsical red wagon floats, marching bands, John Adams and Ben Franklin reenactors, and representatives from over 20 groups marched to commemorate a day of \u201cpomp and parade,\u201d as declared by John Adams in 1776. He believed that Independence Day would be celebrated on July 2 \u2014 when the Continental Congress officially voted for independence \u2014 not two days later, when he, John Hancock, and 54 others signed the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whimsical red wagon floats, marching bands, John Adams and Ben Franklin reenactors, and representatives from over 20 groups&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,28909,1448,2830,1311,28910,6831,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-34922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-inquirer","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-photographer","14":"tag-staff","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114788566759499434","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}