{"id":330223,"date":"2026-07-05T22:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T22:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330223\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T22:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T22:22:13","slug":"keeping-the-celebration-going-in-downtown-fort-myers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330223\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping the celebration going in downtown Fort Myers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the City of Fort Myers still buzzing from our celebration marking America\u2019s 250th anniversary, I can\u2019t help but smile, recalling the excitement and civic pride as our community came together over two days to mark both our nation\u2019s historic revolution and our city\u2019s ongoing evolution. Downtown came alive with patriotic events, live music, Americana arts and crafts and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridaweekly.com\/articles\/fort-myers\/keeping-the-celebration-going-in-downtown-fort-myers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[\u2026]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the City of Fort Myers still buzzing from our celebration marking America\u2019s 250th anniversary, I can\u2019t help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-330223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330223","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=330223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}