{"id":235768,"date":"2026-07-05T01:25:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T01:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235768\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T01:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T01:25:22","slug":"philadelphias-july-fourth-concert-on-ben-franklin-parkway-paused-amid-threat-of-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235768\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia&#8217;s July Fourth concert on Ben Franklin Parkway paused amid threat of storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fourth of July concert on Philadelphia&#8217;s Benjamin Franklin Parkway has been paused amid a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/heat-wave-america-250-philadelphia-weather-forecast-july-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">severe thunderstorm warning<\/a> in the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The One Philly: Unity Concert for America started at 5 p.m. as historically high temperatures gripped in the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Attendees are being asked to seek shelter.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/parkway-sign.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"A sign at the Parkway concert asks attendees to evacuate the area because of impending storms \" height=\"827\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>Christina Aguilera, The Roots, Will Smith and others are expected to perform.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A severe thunderstorm warning is in effect in Philadelphia and some surrounding areas until 10:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/weather.png#.png\" alt=\"weather.png \" height=\"348\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fourth of July concert on Philadelphia&#8217;s Benjamin Franklin Parkway has been paused amid a severe thunderstorm warning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[92364,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-235768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-july-4th","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235768","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=235768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}