{"id":301558,"date":"2026-06-09T17:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/301558\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T17:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:49:07","slug":"jacksonville-veterans-host-july-4-flag-raising-cookout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/301558\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville veterans host July 4 flag raising, cookout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacksonville veterans&#8217; groups are joining to celebrate the nation&#8217;s 250th anniversary in style: with a flag-raising ceremony and community cookout.<\/p>\n<p>American Legion Post 279 of Jacksonville, 903 W. Superior Ave., is hosting the July 4 event.<\/p>\n<p>It will begin with a noon ceremony in front of the legion building. After a short flag raising, invocation and comments, free hot dogs and hamburgers will be served inside starting about 12:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>American Legion Post 279 is being joined by\u00a0Amvets Post 100 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1379 in presenting the event, with sponsorship by Jones Meat &amp; Locker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville veterans&#8217; groups are joining to celebrate the nation&#8217;s 250th anniversary in style: with a flag-raising ceremony and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4613,116,118,117,115,96365,278],"class_list":["post-301558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-breakingnews","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-news","tag-regional-events","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301558","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=301558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}