{"id":12717,"date":"2013-06-26T03:32:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T10:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=12717"},"modified":"2013-06-26T03:32:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T10:32:30","slug":"california-4th-of-july-parades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-4th-of-july-parades\/","title":{"rendered":"California 4th of July Parades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/4pards.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Independence Day ranks in the top 3 holidays for parades in the U.S. \u00a0(Christmas and Veteran&#8217;s Day parades are also among the favorite \u00a0parade celebrations, as well. What&#8217;s so unique about our California 4th of July parades? \u00a0There are over 30 cities with parades ranging from events where anyone can register and participate to parades planned almost a year in advance. All parades are free to see, providing family entertainment with clowns, karate kids, marching bands, flags, horses, floats, drill teams, classic cars, and more. \u00a0See our growing list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/parades\/4thofjuly-parades.html\">California 4th of July Parades<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>According to the people who put them on, \u00a0California boasts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Longest parade in the nation in Alameda<\/li>\n<li>Largest parade west of the Mississippi \u00a0in Huntington Beach<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independence Day ranks in the top 3 holidays for parades in the U.S. \u00a0(Christmas and Veteran&#8217;s Day parades are also among the favorite \u00a0parade celebrations, as well. What&#8217;s so unique about our California 4th of July parades? \u00a0There are over 30 cities with parades ranging from events where anyone can register and participate to parades [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12717"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}