{"id":913202,"date":"2026-07-05T01:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T01:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/913202\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T01:55:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T01:55:32","slug":"ridgewood-continues-116-year-old-fourth-of-july-parade-tradition-in-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/913202\/","title":{"rendered":"Ridgewood continues 116-year-old Fourth of July parade tradition in New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The heat wave didn&#8217;t stop a 116-year-old Fourth of July tradition from continuing in Ridgewood, New Jersey.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chairs, umbrellas and people decked out in red, white and blue lined the parade route as an American flag stretched above Ridgewood Avenue on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite the extreme temperatures, paradegoers were prepared and excited for the festivities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody looks forward to it every year; you can tell,&#8221; one spectator said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shuler-1115-am-vo-ridge-wcbsibmi-hi-res-still.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"shuler-1115-am-vo-ridge-wcbsibmi-hi-res-still.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A giant American flag hangs above the parade route in Ridgewood, New Jersey on July 4, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p>You could spot the first-timers, along with the families who couldn&#8217;t remember a Fourth of July that didn&#8217;t start at the parade.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, everybody&#8217;s just celebrating, and you get the feeling that it&#8217;s just alright and nothing bad&#8217;s going to happen,&#8221; one child said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There were 64 parade entries in total, spanning from marching bands to fire trucks to mini cars. But the kids&#8217; elementary school floats were the star of the show.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shuler-1115-am-vo-ridge-wcbsibmi-hi-res-still-00-00-5708.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"shuler-1115-am-vo-ridge-wcbsibmi-hi-res-still-00-00-5708.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Ridgewood, New Jersey hosts its annual Fourth of July parade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p>One paradegoer came all the way from Cleveland to see it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t miss it for the world,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 theme was &#8220;USA 250: America&#8217;s Birthday Bash.&#8221; It was a celebration of freedom and a reminder that it was hard-won.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The heat wave didn&#8217;t stop a 116-year-old Fourth of July tradition from continuing in Ridgewood, New Jersey.\u00a0 Chairs,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":913203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,238093,72013,14848,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-913202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-america-at-250","tag-bergen-county","tag-july-4th","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116864886199269052","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913202","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=913202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}