{"id":234559,"date":"2026-07-03T09:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T09:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234559\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T09:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T09:56:07","slug":"salute-to-independence-day-parade-steps-off-in-philly-friday-southeastern-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234559\/","title":{"rendered":"Salute to Independence Day Parade steps off in Philly Friday | Southeastern Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA &#8211; Celebrations for Independence Day and America&#8217;s 250th anniversary are kicking off Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The heat is putting a damper on some of the plans.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia is holding its Salute to Independence Day Parade Friday. It&#8217;s been considerably shortened due to the heat.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia&#8217;s Salute to Independence parade was supposed to be 2.4 miles. It will now be just a mile.<\/p>\n<p>The parade steps off at Independence Hall and heads toward City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>The 69 News team will be live at the parade starting at Noon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA &#8211; Celebrations for Independence Day and America&#8217;s 250th anniversary are kicking off Friday. The heat is putting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-234559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234559","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=234559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}