{"id":39453,"date":"2025-07-05T00:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T00:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/39453\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T00:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T00:47:08","slug":"betsy-ross-house-hosts-third-ever-patriotic-pet-parade-on-july-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/39453\/","title":{"rendered":"Betsy Ross House hosts third-ever Patriotic Pet Parade on July 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Betsy Ross House kicked off its Fourth of July celebrations with its Patriotic Pet Parade, inviting Old City and Philly residents to show off their furry \u2014 and some scaly \u2014 friends.\n<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 30 pets took over the Betsy Ross Courtyard to compete in categories such as \u201cbest dressed,\u201d \u201ccrowd favorite\u201d and \u201cmost patriotic pet.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course Flag Day is important to us, but this truly is my favorite day of the year, because it\u2019s so much fun,\u201d said Lisa Acker Moulder, director of the Betsy Ross House.\n  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-707288\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025-07-04-n-kariuki-betsy-ross-house-pet-parade-betsy-ross-with-snake-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"A woman dressed in 18th century garb holds a ball python\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  \/>Betsy Ross interpreter Nina Gold poses with ball python Wadsworth Longfellow at the Betsy Ross House\u2019s third annual Patriotic Pet Parade. (Nick Kariuki\/Billy Penn)<\/p>\n<p>The judges donned costumes, posing as <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/betsy-ross-house-bedding-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Betsy Ross herself,<\/a> music and film director Jeff Winner and <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/old-city-saxophonist-market-street\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Old City street saxophonist David Puryear<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-707283\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025-07-04-n-kariuki-betsy-ross-house-pet-parade-ozzy-bearded-dragon-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"A person holds a bearded dragon\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  \/>Bearded dragon, Ozzy, takes a nap ahead of the the Patriotic Pet Parade at the Betsy Ross House on July 4, 2025. (Nick Kariuki\/Billy Penn)\n<\/p>\n<p>Last year, there was only one contestant that wasn\u2019t a dog: a turtle. This year, there were three non-canine contestants: Ozzy the bearded dragon, Ophelia the giant Flemish rabbit and Wadsworth Longfellow the ball python.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,10202,1448,2830,7926,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-39453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fourth-of-july","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-pets","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114797874742866363","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39453","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=39453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}