{"id":94963,"date":"2025-07-26T20:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T20:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/94963\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T20:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T20:33:09","slug":"historic-philadelphia-incorporated-celebrates-the-19th-birthday-of-franklin-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/94963\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Historic Philadelphia Incorporated&#8217; celebrates the 19th birthday of Franklin Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; There was a very special birthday party held in the city today, but it wasn&#8217;t for a person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It&#8217;s the 19th birthday of Franklin Square, marking the years since it was taken over by Historic Philadelphia Incorporated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">They celebrated the occasion with fun crafts, historic retellings, and an appearance from Ben Franklin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;We&#8217;re always making improvements to the square. We&#8217;re here to really serve the community and provide this phenomenal public green space,&#8221; said Lesly Attarian, Vice President of Development with Historic Philadelphia Incorporated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">For more information, check out the video above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Also, check out their <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/historicphiladelphia.org\/franklin-square-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; There was a very special birthday party held in the city today, but it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":94964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[62593,5229,2879,46667,472,1448,2830,1311,62592,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-94963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-62593","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-events","11":"tag-franklin-square","12":"tag-history","13":"tag-pa","14":"tag-pennsylvania","15":"tag-philadelphia","16":"tag-reenactment","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114921446149699556","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94963","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=94963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}