{"id":234410,"date":"2026-07-03T04:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T04:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234410\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T04:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T04:38:11","slug":"salute-to-independence-parade-start-time-moved-to-11-a-m-friday-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234410\/","title":{"rendered":"Salute to Independence Parade start time moved to 11 a.m. Friday \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/july4thphilly.com\/event\/salute-to-independence-parade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Wawa Welcome America Salute to Independence Semiquincentennial Parade<\/a> start time has been moved up by one hour on Friday, event organizers told NBC10. <\/p>\n<p>The parade will now start on July 3 at 11 a.m. because of the extreme heat, officials said. <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px;font-family: 'Arthouse', sans-serif;font-weight: 700;color: #333;margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;line-height: 1.2em\">Stream Philadelphia News for free, 24\/7, wherever you are with NBC10.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/watch\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-lid=\"New FAST autoblock design NBC Philly\" data-lpos=\"automatic block\"> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0;height: 12px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cta-eye-icon-white.png\" alt=\"Watch button\" height=\"12\"\/>\u00a0 WATCH HERE<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This comes days after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/entertainment\/the-scene\/wawa-welcome-america\/due-to-looming-heat-philly-shortens-route-for-salute-to-independence-parade\/4425208\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/entertainment\/the-scene\/wawa-welcome-america\/due-to-looming-heat-philly-shortens-route-for-salute-to-independence-parade\/4425208\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the route was shortened<\/a> from the planned 2.4 mile length to just one mile.<\/p>\n<p>The Salute to Independence Semiquincentennial Day Parade, as well as the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/constitutioncenter.org\/about\/liberty-medal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">National Constitution Center honoring Pope Leo XIV<\/a>\u00a0with the Liberty Medal will be held on Friday, July 3, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>And, on July 4, 2026, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/entertainment\/the-scene\/wawa-welcome-america\/meek-mill-joins-4th-of-july-concert-lineup-with-christina-aguilera-will-smith\/4421649\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">One Philly: Unity Concert For America to Commemorate America\u2019s 250th Anniversary<\/a>\u00a0will be held on the Ben Franklin Parkway.<\/p>\n<p>NBC10 will be the only station to air all three events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wawa Welcome America Salute to Independence Semiquincentennial Parade start time has been moved up by one hour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,51239],"class_list":["post-234410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-wawa-welcome-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234410","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=234410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}