{"id":283856,"date":"2026-07-01T18:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/283856\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T18:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:02:23","slug":"happy-fourth-of-july-queens-gazette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/283856\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Fourth of July &#8211; Queens Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/2026-07-01\/1p1.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204537\" class=\"wp-image-204537 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1p1-277x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Walter Karling\" width=\"277\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-204537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Walter Karling<\/p>\n<p>Central Astoria LDC\u2019s 42nd Annual Independence Day Celebration on Thursday, June 25 was a night to remember. Astoria Park was packed with thousands of com\u00admunity members and visitors who came together to celebrate one of Queens\u2019 most anticipated iconic summer traditions and it did not disappoint. At 9: 15 pm, all eyes turned to the sky for a jaw-dropping fireworks display by Grucci. The bursts of color and light captured the joy and magic of Independence Day in a way only fireworks can. See page 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo Walter Karling Central Astoria LDC\u2019s 42nd Annual Independence Day Celebration on Thursday, June 25 was a night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-283856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}