{"id":237559,"date":"2026-07-07T15:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/237559\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:27:08","slug":"massive-heat-wave-forces-philadelphia-to-cancel-july-4-festivities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/237559\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive heat wave forces Philadelphia to cancel July 4 festivities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dek\">FOX Weather correspondent Katie Byrne reports from Philadelphia on the extreme heat and its impact on July 4 celebrations, with temperatures nearing 112 degrees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dek long-dek\">A massive heat wave scorched the U.S. during the July 4 holiday, causing Philadelphia to cancel its annual parade due to extreme temperatures. FOX Weather correspondent Katie Byrne reports from Philadelphia, detailing the severe conditions, including a felt temperature of 112 degrees. Over 150 million Americans are under heat alerts as people seek relief indoors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FOX Weather correspondent Katie Byrne reports from Philadelphia on the extreme heat and its impact on July 4&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82171,2032,82170,69,71,70,420],"class_list":["post-237559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-breaking-news-videos","tag-fox-news","tag-news-videos","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237559","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=237559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}