{"id":129019,"date":"2026-01-23T11:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/129019\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:22:10","slug":"gasparilla-pirate-ship-prepares-for-annual-invasion-of-tampa-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/129019\/","title":{"rendered":"Gasparilla pirate ship prepares for annual invasion of Tampa Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-0c0b73b0=\"\">As Tampa readies for its annual Gasparilla celebration, the iconic pirate ship Jose Gasparilla is undergoing final preparations ahead of its highly anticipated arrival. The event, which transforms the city into a sea of pirates, parades, and beads, is a decades-old tradition that blends spectacle with local history.<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0January 22, 2026 11:32pm EST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Tampa readies for its annual Gasparilla celebration, the iconic pirate ship Jose Gasparilla is undergoing final preparations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-129019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}