{"id":985897,"date":"2026-08-07T03:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T03:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/985897\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T03:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T03:04:10","slug":"weekend-picks-valley-events-for-aug-7-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/985897\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Picks: Valley events for Aug. 7-9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Planning a weekend around Phoenix in the summer usually includes a check of the weather forecast if you\u2019ll be outside. And no surprise, it\u2019ll be toasty this weekend \u2014 but fret not!<\/p>\n<p>Friday, Aug. 7, actually marks the astronomical midpoint of summer, sitting exactly halfway between the summer solstice on June 21 and the autumnal equinox on Sept. 22. So little by little look for our days to get shorter starting tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FEATURE PICK<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Planning a weekend around Phoenix in the summer usually includes a check of the weather forecast if you\u2019ll&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":985898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,221009,375180,1589,395466,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,395467],"class_list":["post-985897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-first-friday","tag-grand-avenue-arts-district","tag-phoenix","tag-roosevelt-row-arts-district","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-west-valley-astronomy-club"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117052012517915169","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985897","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=985897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/985898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}