{"id":662,"date":"2017-03-18T00:03:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T08:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookholidays.com\/blog\/?p=662"},"modified":"2017-03-20T15:05:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T23:05:31","slug":"st-patricks-day-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cookholidays.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/18\/st-patricks-day-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Patrick\u2019s Day Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"title\">St. Patrick\u2019s Day Parade<\/h2>\n<div id=\"post-972\" class=\"post-972 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h4>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/oldsacramento.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/st-pats.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2718\" src=\"http:\/\/oldsacramento.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/st-pats-1024x205.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/oldsacramento.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/st-pats-1024x205.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/oldsacramento.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/st-pats-300x60.jpg 300w, http:\/\/oldsacramento.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/st-pats-768x154.jpg 768w\" alt=\"st-pats\" width=\"1024\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<p><strong>SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>One of Northern California\u2019s Largest and Most Colorful Parades Unites All Cultures<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of colorful marchers dressed in green, along with Irish and Highland dancers, pipe and drum bands, historic re-enactors and a variety of cultural organizations all join together to be a part of the 21st Annual St. Patrick\u2019s Day parade on Saturday, March 18, 2017. \u00a0The parade steps\u00a0off promptly at 1:00 p.m. from Neasham and Front Streets in Old Sacramento and proceeds\u00a0throughout the national historic landmark district.<\/p>\n<p>Over 50 units with nearly 1,000\u00a0marchers will be\u00a0featured in the parade. Irish dancers in elaborate Celtic costumes, bagpipers, bands, military regiments, police and fire representatives, costumed marchers and a variety of cultural organizations bring the luck of the Irish to the event. The parade draws\u00a0people from all over Northern California, bringing together thousands in the 28-acre historic site.\u00a0 Last year more than 15,000 people turned out to enjoy the festivities.<\/p>\n<p>The day will include entertainment and activities starting at 11:30 AM.<\/p>\n<p>All Old Sacramento streets will not allow parking until 3:00pm and will be closed to traffic from noon to 3:00 p.m. Parking can be found in one of three convenient garages: Old Sacramento Garage (2nd &amp; I), Tower Garage (Capitol &amp; Neasham), and Macy\u2019s West (3rd &amp; L).<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/oldsacramento.com\/special-events\/st-patricks-day-parade\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Patrick\u2019s Day Parade \u00a0 SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 2017 One of Northern California\u2019s Largest and Most Colorful Parades Unites All Cultures Hundreds of colorful marchers dressed in green, along with Irish and Highland dancers, pipe and drum bands, historic re-enactors and a variety of cultural organizations all join together to be a part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/cookholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663,"href":"http:\/\/cookholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}