{"id":427043,"date":"2026-10-13T23:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T23:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/427043\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T23:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T23:12:10","slug":"lemon-drop-festival-pours-into-downtown-jacksonville-free-press-of-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/427043\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemon Drop Festival Pours Into Downtown Jacksonville \u2013 Free Press of Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/24396-678x381.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"24396\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jacksonvillefreepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/24396.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-96255 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/24396-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Downtown Jacksonville got a citrus-inspired twist Sunday, October 4, as the Lemon Drop Festival transformed Ford on Bay into a lively celebration of cocktails, music and community.<\/p>\n<p>The adults-only event featured more than 20 lemon drop martini flavors, specialty cocktails, food trucks and local vendors.<\/p>\n<p>Festival sampled creative drinks, shopped and mingled while DJs Crash, Risktaker and DJ Showtime kept the crowd moving.<\/p>\n<p>Held along Bay Street, the six-hour festival offered attendees a spirited afternoon of entertainment, adding another splash of flavor and excitement to Jacksonville\u2019s downtown social scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Downtown Jacksonville got a citrus-inspired twist Sunday, October 4, as the Lemon Drop Festival transformed Ford on Bay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-427043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427043","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=427043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}