{"id":743310,"date":"2026-07-04T19:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T19:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/743310\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T19:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T19:41:09","slug":"photos-america-celebrates-its-250th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/743310\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: America celebrates its 250th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Fourth of July weekend in the United States \u2014 and this one is special.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday marks the nation\u2019s 250th birthday, and Americans are marking the milestone with cookouts, parades, fireworks and other traditions.<\/p>\n<p>In the nation&#8217;s capital, celebrations are set to culminate with a speech from President Donald Trump and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/07\/03\/politics\/july-fourth-fireworks-trump-what-we-know\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">record-breaking fireworks show<\/a> on the National Mall.<\/p>\n<p>Complicating matters, however, is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/07\/03\/weather\/heat-wave-nyc-dc-forecast-climate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dangerous heat wave<\/a> that has been shattering records, straining the electric grid and raising the risk for millions of people who choose to celebrate outdoors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Fourth of July weekend in the United States \u2014 and this one is special. Saturday marks the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743311,"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-743310","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\/743310","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=743310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}