{"id":742612,"date":"2026-07-04T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/742612\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T11:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T11:00:14","slug":"washington-dcs-independence-day-parade-canceled-due-to-extreme-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/742612\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington DC&#8217;s Independence Day Parade canceled due to extreme heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON  (7News) \u2014 The Independence Day Parade in Washington, D.C., has been canceled, according to the event organizers.<\/p>\n<p>As heat index temperatures on July 4 are expected to soar well above 100 degrees, the organizers said they decided to cancel the event.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED | <a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/local\/fourth-of-july-heat-changes-whats-canceled-delayed-and-modified-across-the-dmv-holiday-firework-extreme-severe-weather-leesburg-fairfax\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fourth of July heat forcing changes: What&#8217;s canceled, delayed across the DMV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This decision was made after extensive and careful consideration of the safety of our participants, spectators, and staff as the top priority,&#8221; said Todd Marcocci, president of Under the Sun Productions Inc., the organizer of the parade.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n<p>The parade was scheduled to take place at 10:30 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (7News) \u2014 The Independence Day Parade in Washington, D.C., has been canceled, according to the event organizers.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-742612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}