{"id":7662,"date":"2016-05-30T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=7662"},"modified":"2016-05-31T09:55:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T13:55:44","slug":"poor-weather-cancels-memorial-day-parades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=7662","title":{"rendered":"Poor weather cancels Memorial Day parades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-722\" src=\"http:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Flags-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"Flags\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" \/>The poor weather \u2014 the remnants of Tropical Storm Betsy \u2014 have disrupted plans for local Memorial Day parades in Downingtown and Kennett Square today.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Although a less than perfect ending to what has been a glorious holiday weekend \u2014 the National Weather Service says that all is not lost and the sun may even peak out this afternoon. While is likely to remain cloudy with a possibility of spotty showers, the high should still hit 80 degrees and mot of the rain should move out of the area by mid-afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Times<\/em> wishes you a safe and happy Memorial Day.<\/p>\n<p>Take a moment to remember those who have made the ultimate sacrifice to protect our freedoms today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The poor weather \u2014 the remnants of Tropical Storm Betsy \u2014 have disrupted plans for local Memorial Day parades in Downingtown and Kennett Square today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1386],"class_list":["post-7662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-memorial-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7663,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7662\/revisions\/7663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}