{"id":844197,"date":"2026-08-03T10:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/844197\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T10:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:41:19","slug":"civic-holiday-for-most-today-st-johns-waits-for-regatta-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/844197\/","title":{"rendered":"Civic Holiday for Most Today, St. John\u2019s Waits for Regatta Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/closed.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Civic Holiday for Most Today, St. John's Waits for Regatta Day\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>Today is a holiday for most across Canada, but in the capital city, residents will have to wait until the go-or-no-go on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The civic holiday is recognized across Canada on the first Monday in August, with many municipalities using the occasion to celebrate their towns or cities.<\/p>\n<p>In St. John\u2019s, however, the formal holiday is marked on Regatta Day, which, according to centuries-old tradition, is held on the first Wednesday in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (VOCM News) Today is a holiday for most across Canada, but in the capital city, residents will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-844197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844197","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=844197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}