{"id":55994,"date":"2026-07-05T09:42:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T09:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/us-at-250-how-celebrations-unfolded-in-washington-dc\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T09:42:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T09:42:26","slug":"us-at-250-how-celebrations-unfolded-in-washington-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/us-at-250-how-celebrations-unfolded-in-washington-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"US at 250: How celebrations unfolded in Washington DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thousands of people gathered in the US capital to celebrate the country&#8217;s 250th birthday in a day that was marked by extreme weather, delays, and a huge display of fireworks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The celebration, which included a flyover, a concert, as well as a speech by US President Donald Trump, was delayed by a thunderstorm that forced an evacuation of the National Mall in the early evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The night ended with the skies being lit up by the reputed largest fireworks display ever in the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 4 July federal holiday commemorates the 13 US colonies signing the Declaration of Independence in 1776 to end British rule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC correspondent Richard Preston attended the celebrations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cp9lppvkmz5o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">More on this story here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/cwyk2ypj014o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people gathered in the US capital to celebrate the country&#8217;s 250th birthday in a day that was marked by extreme weather, delays, and a huge display of fireworks. The celebration, which included a flyover, a concert, as well as a speech by US President Donald Trump, was delayed by a thunderstorm that forced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55996,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55994\/revisions\/55996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}