{"id":598444,"date":"2026-04-12T04:49:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T04:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/598444\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T04:49:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T04:49:22","slug":"vaisakhi-parade-rolls-out-enhanced-security-shorter-route-in-south-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/598444\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaisakhi parade rolls out enhanced security, shorter route in South Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>6 hours ago<a class=\"video-base-category-link\" aria-label=\"Content area News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>Duration 3:58<\/p>\n<p id=\"MainContentDescription\">Thousands gathered to celebrate Vaisakhi in South Vancouver Saturday. The festival marks the beginning of the spring harvest in Punjab and the creation of the Khalsa, a defining moment in Sikh history. As the CBC&#8217;s Troy Charles tells us, this year&#8217;s parade has increased security and police presence following last year\u2019s Lapu-Lapu Day attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"6 hours agoNewsDuration 3:58 Thousands gathered to celebrate Vaisakhi in South Vancouver Saturday. The festival marks the beginning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-598444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}