OAKLAND CITY \u2014 Oakland City\u2019s fireworks celebration will feature mock police chases with the vehicles from “Smokey and the Bandit” and a chance to see those vehicles up close, Mayor James Deffendall told the Oakland City Council during the regular council meeting on April 14.<\/p>\n
The Independence Day celebration is June 27, the Saturday before July 4, with fireworks, music by the Duke Boys, bouncy houses, food trucks \u2014 and, as the mayor revealed, the Pontiac Firebird Trans Am police cars from “Smokey and the Bandit” on display at the festival from Branson, Missouri.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will be a great day for celebrating our nation’s 250th birthday,\u201d Deffendall said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND CITY \u2014 Oakland City\u2019s fireworks celebration will feature mock police chases with the vehicles from “Smokey and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[98722,100,143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-270172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-local_news","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-oakland","11":"tag-oakland-headlines","12":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}