{"id":22696,"date":"2016-06-06T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T07:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=22696"},"modified":"2016-06-06T00:00:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T07:00:50","slug":"legendary-parades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/legendary-parades\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Legendary 4th of July Parades in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/jupard.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Legend: a story from the past that is believed by many people but cannot be proved to be true<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/4thofjuly\/aptos.html\">Aptos 4th of July Parade<\/a>, World&#8217;s Shortest 4th of July Parade, spans\u00a0<strong>0.4 miles.<\/strong>\u00a0There may be smaller and shorter\u00a0parades in California,\u00a0but this\u00a0Santa Cruz County\u00a0town gets national media attention through its claim.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/4thofjuly\/alameda.html\">Alameda 4th of July Parade<\/a>\u00a0(left photo) is the longest Independence Day parade in the nation\u00a0with a whopping <strong>3.3\u00a0miles<\/strong> of route! There&#8217;s no shortage of enthusiasm in the community event where you&#8217;re either in the parade or know someone who is. Is the parade really the longest\u00a0in the U.S.? It could be &#8212; buy maybe not.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/parades\/huntington-beach-4thofjuly-parade.html\">Huntington Beach 4th of July Parade<\/a>\u00a0(right photo)\u00a0is\u00a0the biggest West of the Mississippi with <strong>2\u00a0miles <\/strong>of parade route.\u00a0Somebody once said HB has the longest pier in California, though it doesn&#8217;t. However, it may have the biggest 4th of July parade West of the Mississippi by attendance. Estimates range from 150,000 to 250,000.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legend: a story from the past that is believed by many people but cannot be proved to be true Aptos 4th of July Parade, World&#8217;s Shortest 4th of July Parade, spans\u00a00.4 miles.\u00a0There may be smaller and shorter\u00a0parades in California,\u00a0but this\u00a0Santa Cruz County\u00a0town gets national media attention through its claim. Alameda 4th of July Parade\u00a0(left photo) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/22696"}],"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=22696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}