{"id":330171,"date":"2026-07-05T20:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330171\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T20:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:56:07","slug":"photos-ocoees-fourth-of-july-celebration-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330171\/","title":{"rendered":"PHOTOS: Ocoee\u2019s Fourth of July Celebration 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h969400-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">Rain did not stop Ocoee residents from showing patriotism and pride at the city\u2019s annual Fourth of July celebration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h969400-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">Hundreds of residents showed up dressed in red, white and blue with brightened spirits, ready to enjoy live music, food trucks and carnival games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h969400-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">Historic figures Thomas Jefferson, John and Abigail Adams, and Paul Revere made a special appearance at the event, making it all more meaningful.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h969400-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">Jefferson and John Adams signed Declaration of Independence copies for residents to take home, and Revere rode down Lakeshore Drive screaming, \u201cThe British are coming!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h969400-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">The night ended with a bright and colorful firework show over Starke Lake.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rain did not stop Ocoee residents from showing patriotism and pride at the city\u2019s annual Fourth of July&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-330171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330171","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=330171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}