{"id":879036,"date":"2026-06-19T20:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/879036\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T20:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:58:18","slug":"coney-island-mermaid-parade-returns-after-financial-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/879036\/","title":{"rendered":"Coney Island Mermaid Parade returns after financial setback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 44th annual Mermaid Parade will make a splash in Coney Island this weekend. Glitter, fishnets and other creative costumes will hit the boardwalk Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>A financial setback had actually threatened the festivities earlier this year. Organizers thought they may have had to cancel the parade. However, a financial boost came in to save the fun.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Rinn, artistic director of Coney Island USA, which hosts the parade, joined &#8220;The Rush Hour&#8221; on Friday to talk about this year&#8217;s festivities.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 44th annual Mermaid Parade will make a splash in Coney Island this weekend. Glitter, fishnets and other&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":879037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,7448,242670,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,111107,5227,111108,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5284],"class_list":["post-879036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-app-top-stories","tag-dean-meminger","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-ny1-interviews","tag-nyc","tag-the-rush-hour","tag-top-stories","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-vod"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116778782265904931","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879036","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=879036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}