{"id":361891,"date":"2026-07-05T16:16:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/361891\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T16:16:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:16:35","slug":"americas-250th-birthday-celebration-in-downtown-el-paso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/361891\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s 250th birthday celebration in Downtown El Paso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:USA TODAY;\" href=\"https:\/\/uw-media.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"USA TODAY\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"174\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2021-07\/506fdd20-ee43-11eb-8f33-8a4102cf7edb.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Diego Cruz-Castruita, El Paso Times<\/p>\n<p>Sun, July 5, 2026 at 1:43 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>1 \/ 0<\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s 250th birthday celebration in Downtown El Paso<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Army Sgt. Graham Parker and Pfc. Vandame stand side by side and salute the flag during the America\u2019s 250th birthday celebration at Convention Center Plaza in Downtown El Paso on July 4, 2026.<\/p>\n<p> (Diego Cruz-Castruita \/ El Paso Times)<\/p>\n<p>The city of El Paso celebrated America&#8217;s 250th birthday at Convention Center Plaza on July 4, 2026, with music, family fun and festivities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diego Cruz-Castruita, El Paso Times Sun, July 5, 2026 at 1:43 PM UTC 1 \/ 0 America\u2019s 250th&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1109,128423,138,140,139],"class_list":["post-361891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-city-of-el-paso","tag-convention-center-plaza","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}