{"id":25535,"date":"2018-11-05T14:49:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T22:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25535"},"modified":"2018-11-05T14:50:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T22:50:13","slug":"patriotic-veterans-parades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/patriotic-veterans-parades\/","title":{"rendered":"California&#8217;s Patriotic Veterans Day Parades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/vetpara.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Marching bands, military units, service organizations and honored vets come together in Veterans Day Parades, while the public shows its support by attending, cheering and waving the Red, White &amp; Blue.<\/p>\n<p>There are more than 30 patriotic parades this week in California with the majority taking place on Sunday, November 11. When Veterans Day falls on a Sunday, organizations that formally observe this federal holiday (including U.S. Postal Service) will normally be closed on Monday, November 12th.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/veterans-day-parades.html\">California Veterans Day Parades<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Fresno claims the Largest Veterans Day Parade on the West Coast!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/palm-springs-veterans-parade.html\">Palm Springs Veterans Day Parade<\/a>\u00a0concludes with a fireworks finale.<\/li>\n<li>The cities of Holtville and Perris already held their Veterans Day Parades the first weekend in November 2018.<\/li>\n<li>11:11 &#8211; Fresno Veterans Day Parade and San Fernando Valley Veterans Day Parade both begin symbolically at 11:11 a.m. (Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, when the Armistice with Germany went into effect.)<\/li>\n<li>Auburn Veterans Day Parade pauses at 11 a.m. for a patriotic release of doves, followed by a fly-over, a three volley rifle salute and TAPS.<\/li>\n<li>100 &#8211; Auburn Veterans Day Parade celebrates 100 Years of Remembrance.<br \/>\nLemoore Veterans Day Parade is hosted by American Legion Post 100.<br \/>\nPetaluma&#8217;s\u00a0North Bay Veterans Day Parade features more than 100 entries.<br \/>\nPorterville celebrates its 100th annual Veterans Day Parade.<\/li>\n<li>Santa Barbara&#8217;s Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation has more than a week of ceremonies, celebrations, a military ball, and a parade. In 2018 celebrations span 9 days.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marching bands, military units, service organizations and honored vets come together in Veterans Day Parades, while the public shows its support by attending, cheering and waving the Red, White &amp; Blue. There are more than 30 patriotic parades this week in California with the majority taking place on Sunday, November 11. When Veterans Day falls [&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\/25535"}],"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=25535"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25538,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25535\/revisions\/25538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}