{"id":9806,"date":"2025-10-17T15:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/9806\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T15:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:23:14","slug":"float-entries-being-accepted-for-bakersfield-christmas-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/9806\/","title":{"rendered":"Float entries being accepted for Bakersfield Christmas Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">We haven\u2019t yet reached Halloween but some local organizations have Christmas on their minds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As the Bakersfield Christmas Parade Committee puts the finishing touches on this year\u2019s entry process, it is still accepting entries for floats for the 2025 parade, which will take place Dec. 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe\u2019ve got 105 to fill and space for more entries in all the parade categories,\u201d parade coordinator Sylvia Cariker said in a news release. \u201cWe\u2019re accepting marching or walking groups, dance groups, bands, vehicles and, of course floats. And those floats can be of any design but we\u2019re hoping they will embrace our parade theme this year of \u2018A Family Christmas.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Entry applications are available on the parade website <a href=\"http:\/\/bcparade.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:bcparade.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">bcparade.com<\/a> with an entry deadline of Oct. 24 at 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Any questions can be directed to the committee by emailing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/mailto:bakersfieldchristmasparade@gmail.com\" data-ylk=\"slk:bakersfieldchristmasparade@gmail.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bakersfieldchristmasparade@gmail.com<\/a> or calling 661-501-3297.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Bakersfield Christmas Parade will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Dec. 4 through downtown Bakersfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We haven\u2019t yet reached Halloween but some local organizations have Christmas on their minds. As the Bakersfield Christmas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,9479],"class_list":["post-9806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9806","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=9806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}