{"id":521129,"date":"2026-01-16T20:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T20:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/521129\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T20:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T20:12:11","slug":"philly-honoring-250th-anniversary-with-replica-liberty-bells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/521129\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly honoring 250th anniversary with replica liberty bells"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Cherelle Parker called the unveiling of the bells the beginning of a year full of great events to mark the country\u2019s 250th anniversary.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThese bells are also a call to action to drive economic activity along our commercial quarters, uplift our small businesses, and quite frankly, to spread the sense of hope and pride across the city of Philadelphia. This is what I call one Philly in action.\u201d
\n\"MayorMayor Cherelle Parker is excited about the bells unveiling. (Tom MacDonald\/WHYY)\n<\/p>\n

Parker said the bell program is part of an effort to make sure the 250th celebration is spread out beyond the downtown business district into \u201cneighborhoods across the city.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\u201cYou should feel it in Lawncrest and Lawndale and Oxford Circle. No matter where you are in the city, you should feel a part of this celebration,\u201d Parker told the group gathered for the unveiling at an unmarked warehouse in Olney, where the bells were decorated.\n <\/p>\n

The display is all part of more than $100 million the city is spending on the 250th birthday celebrations. Parker said when she took office two years ago, there wasn\u2019t money set aside for the parties and other events, which include the World Cup games, the MLB All-Star Game, and other events. Now the events are funded by the city and state.
\n\"TheNearly two dozen Philadelphia neighborhoods will see fiberglass bells installed as part of the Bells Across PA project. (Tom MacDonald\/WHYY)\n<\/p>\n

Parker has modified her \u201cOne Philadelphia, a United City\u201d motto for the city, adding \u201cOne America, a United Nation\u201d to her call-and-response chant at nearly every event where she speaks.\n<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s collection of nearly two dozen clapless ringers represents 20% of similar bells in place statewide. Bells Across PA is a collaborative effort between the city and state, using a combination of state, city and private funding to achieve the goal of having at least one bell in each of Pennsylvania\u2019s 67 counties.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Cherelle Parker called the unveiling of the bells the beginning of a year full of great events…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":521130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1448,2830,1311,30814,20788,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-521129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-pa","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-250","13":"tag-phillys-100th-mayor","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\/115906605544792216","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521129","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=521129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}