{"id":56816,"date":"2025-11-22T17:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/56816\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T17:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:08:10","slug":"jacksonville-onslow-christmas-holiday-parade-kicks-off-the-festive-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/56816\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Onslow Christmas Holiday Parade kicks off the festive season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ONSLOW COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; The Christmas spirit was on full display this Saturday as the Jacksonville Christmas Holiday Parade kicked off the festive season in Eastern Carolina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This year marks 71 years that the Jacksonville-Onslow Chamber of Commerce has been putting on the parade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The theme of this year\u2019s parade was \u201cA Storybook Christmas\u201d and featured classic Christmas characters leaping from the pages of beloved holiday books. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The parade was filled with holiday magic, as crowds gathered to watch multiple floats, including Santa Claus riding on top of a firetruck. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WITN\u2019s Courtney Bunting and Dave Jordan joined the festivities at Western Boulevard, with live WITN coverage brought to you by FirstLight Home Care. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ONSLOW COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; The Christmas spirit was on full display this Saturday as the Jacksonville Christmas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32794,116,118,117,4480],"class_list":["post-56816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-christmas-parade","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-witn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56816","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=56816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}