{"id":333221,"date":"2026-07-08T15:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333221\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T15:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:44:07","slug":"picking-the-parade-winners-gets-tougher-every-year-key-biscayne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333221\/","title":{"rendered":"Picking the parade winners gets tougher every year | Key Biscayne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Selecting the &#8220;best of the best&#8221; in Key Biscayne&#8217;s Fourth of July Parade seems to become a more difficult assignment every year.<\/p>\n<p>The 67th edition of the parade featured a record 75 entries, keeping judges busy for more than two hours as a colorful procession of floats, creatively decorated golf carts, bicycles, an iconic DJ Volkswagen bus and even a patriotic SuperMix concrete mixer rolled past the reviewing stand.<\/p>\n<p>Judges Norie Del Valle, Ana Isabel Hume and Curt Obront carefully evaluated each entry while emcees Austin Tellam and Tim Stinkey kept the crowd entertained with lively commentary.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"supermix-concrete-truck-fourth-of-july\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"468\" height=\"725\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>The SuperMix concrete truck, winner of the award for the Most Beautiful float.<\/p>\n<p>After careful deliberation, the judges selected the following winners:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Best Decorated Golf Cart: Tamares Family<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Best Decorated Bike: Key Biscayne American Legion<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Most Patriotic: The Baltimore All-Stars Marching Band<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Most Beautiful: SuperMix Concrete truck<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Most Original: Key Biscayne Yacht Club<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Best Homemade Entry: Jankanoos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Selecting the &#8220;best of the best&#8221; in Key Biscayne&#8217;s Fourth of July Parade seems to become a more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[134826,137469,76223,135479,137467,126,123,125,124,137468],"class_list":["post-333221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-4th-of-july-parade","tag-4th-of-july-parade-winners","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-fourth-of-july-parade","tag-fourth-of-july-parade-entries","tag-key-biscayne","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-parade-winners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333221","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=333221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}