{"id":158015,"date":"2026-04-05T21:11:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/158015\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T21:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:11:06","slug":"93rd-easter-promenade-in-philadelphia-pushes-through-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/158015\/","title":{"rendered":"93rd Easter Promenade in Philadelphia pushes through rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamel Workman, founder and hatter of Dandy Headdress, participated in his first Easter promenade as a contest judge. Wearing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DWmUcl7EZZ1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">custom hat<\/a> he made inspired by the Mad Hatter from \u201cAlice in Wonderland,\u201d he said it was great to see the tradition firsthand.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou see this in the neighborhoods when you wake up on Sunday morning, you\u2019ll see everybody coming out [of] their house on Easter dressed in their finest,\u201d Workman said. \u201cBut to have it all in one place and have a contest for the best dressed in different categories, that\u2019s really fun.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Cynthia Young-Nelson has been bringing generations of her family to South Street for the holiday for more than 20 years. Over time, she has built a community around the tradition and keeps in touch with people she\u2019s met along the way.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe get to hug each other and talk about how the year went,\u201d Young-Nelson said. \u201cWe celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, our savior. Then after this, I go visit other family members \u2026 we have our Sunday dinner.\u201d\n  <\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamel Workman, founder and hatter of Dandy Headdress, participated in his first Easter promenade as a contest judge.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[42863,69,71,70,27200],"class_list":{"0":"post-158015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-easter","9":"tag-philadelphia","10":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","11":"tag-philadelphia-news","12":"tag-south-street"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}