{"id":333527,"date":"2026-07-08T20:35:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333527\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T20:35:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:35:36","slug":"st-pete-hosts-the-fourth-to-celebrate-americas-250th-anniversary-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333527\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete hosts \u2018The Fourth\u2019 to celebrate America\u2019s 250th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WLFA) \u2014 The sky over St. Pete was lit up with fireworks Saturday night to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>Before the dazzling display kicked off, tons of people packed the edges of the North Yacht Basin, including Marsha Anderson.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/news\/pasco-county\/3-year-old-boy-dead-after-drowning-in-pasco-county\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t3-year-old boy dead after drowning in Pasco County\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur friends had come here to the historic museum function and scoped this out, and we talked and came here,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Some people took setting up camp even more seriously, as Jenny Beck\u2019s family set up shop around the crack of dawn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince like 6:30. We want to make sure we get a good spot, it\u2019s very important,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/news\/pinellas-county\/inmate-dies-in-pinellas-county-jail-sheriffs-office-says\/?ipid=promo-link-block2\" class=\"promo-link__link\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t28-year-old man dies in Pinellas County Jail, sheriff\u2019s office says\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anderson said she takes planning for the day seriously because St. Pete takes celebrating America seriously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDown here, they go all out. And look at the area, look at the people, it\u2019s pretty exciting,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>8 On Your Side also met Carlos Sanchez, who was all decked out in American attire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew I wanted to come out, celebrate the Fourth of July, celebrate America\u2019s birthday, and just be around this, with fellow Americans who love our country as much as I do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WLFA) \u2014 The sky over St. Pete was lit up with fireworks Saturday night to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-333527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333527","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=333527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}