{"id":13114,"date":"2020-06-03T16:34:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T21:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colliervilleh-i.com\/towns-annual-independence-day-event-rescheduled-due-to-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2020-06-03T16:34:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T21:34:49","slug":"towns-annual-independence-day-event-rescheduled-due-to-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colliervilleh-i.com\/towns-annual-independence-day-event-rescheduled-due-to-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Town&#8217;s annual Independence Day event rescheduled due to pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Collierville&#8217;s annual Independence Day Celebration, originally scheduled for July 3, has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each year, approximately 20,000 people gather in H.W. Cox Park to enjoy live entertainment and one of the largest firework demonstrations in the mid-south.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The town is making plans to host a similar event on Sept. 5, 2020, over the Labor Day weekend holiday, to celebrate the town&#8217;s 150th anniversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Collierville Independence Day Celebration is one of my favorite town traditions, but the popularity of the event poses too great of a risk for us to proceed in July. Our event staff will bring all of our favorite parts of the Independence Day Celebration to our event in September creating a Collierville 150th celebration that we will remember for years to come,&#8221; said Mayor Stan Joyner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Staff is currently working on details to celebrate our country\u2019s independence and provide a sense of togetherness, while making the health and safety of our residents a top priority. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More information will be released as details are finalized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collierville&#8217;s annual Independence Day Celebration, originally scheduled for July 3, has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0 Each year, approximately 20,000 people gather in H.W. Cox Park to enjoy live entertainment and one of the largest firework demonstrations in the mid-south. The town is making plans to host a similar event on Sept. 5,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,246],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colliervilleh-i.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colliervilleh-i.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colliervilleh-i.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colliervilleh-i.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colliervilleh-i.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colliervilleh-i.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colliervilleh-i.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colliervilleh-i.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colliervilleh-i.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colliervilleh-i.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}