{"id":231646,"date":"2026-04-14T19:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/231646\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:11:10","slug":"campus-connections-concert-celebrating-america-250","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/231646\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Campus Connections Concert: Celebrating America 250&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year marks the United States of America&#8217;s 250th birthday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baynews9.com\/fl\/tampa\/community\/america-250\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SEE ALSO: More America 250 headlines<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are numerous events honoring the country&#8217;s history leading up to the big day on July 4.<\/p>\n<p>That includes a free, patriotic concert at St. Petersburg College this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Campus Connections Concert: Celebrating America 250&#8221; will take place Thursday at the Palladium Theater at SPC.<\/p>\n<p>The program will showcase powerful and moving works highlighting American themes of patriotism, landscapes, inspirational leaders and historic achievements.<\/p>\n<p>The Honor Flight of West Central Florida will be recognized at the concert. It is a nonprofit that flies veterans from St. Petersburg to Washington, D.C. for the day.<\/p>\n<p>The concert starts at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Spectrum Bay News 9&#8217;s Erin Murray has an On The Town preview. Click the video player above to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This year marks the United States of America&#8217;s 250th birthday. SEE ALSO: More America 250 headlines There are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[52302,274,115,4094,7149,596,275,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-231646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-america-250","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-on-the-town","12":"tag-on-the-town-app","13":"tag-pinellas-county","14":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","15":"tag-st-pete","16":"tag-st-pete-headlines","17":"tag-st-pete-news","18":"tag-st-petersburg","19":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","20":"tag-st-petersburg-news","21":"tag-tampa","22":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231646","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=231646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}