{"id":234764,"date":"2026-07-03T14:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T14:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234764\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T14:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T14:46:08","slug":"philadelphia-250-parade-cancelled-due-to-extreme-heat-july-4th-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234764\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia 250 parade cancelled due to extreme heat July 4th weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dangerous, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/weather-news\/articles\/extreme-heat-watch-effect-week-180746331.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:triple-digit heat;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;triple-digit heat&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">triple-digit heat<\/a> is attacking the East Coast this holiday weekend, not only bringing sweltering temps but canceling events for America&#8217;s semiquincentennial in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The city&#8217;s long-awaited Salute to Independence Semiquincentennial Parade was cancelled due to the heat, an alert that came from the official Wawa Welcome America page just hours before the noon start time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dangerous, triple-digit heat is attacking the East Coast this holiday weekend, not only bringing sweltering temps but canceling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[87759,101311,69,71,70,51239],"class_list":["post-234764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-holiday-weekend","tag-independence-semiquincentennial-parade","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\/234764","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=234764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}