{"id":75676,"date":"2026-07-03T06:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/heat-wave-forces-washington-dc-to-alter-july-4-festivities\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T06:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:55:07","slug":"heat-wave-forces-washington-dc-to-alter-july-4-festivities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/heat-wave-forces-washington-dc-to-alter-july-4-festivities\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat Wave Forces Washington, DC to Alter July 4 Festivities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Record-breaking heat is having an impact on one of the biggest celebrations for the United States\u2019 250th birthday, with organizers of the Freedom 250 Salute to America are delaying the event\u2019s start time from 1pm to 5pm because of the expect triple-digit heat in Washington. It comes as President Donald Trump prepares to visit Mount Rushmore ahead of July 4 celebrations. NBC\u2019s Gabe Gutierrez reports for TODAY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record-breaking heat is having an impact on one of the biggest celebrations for the United States\u2019 250th birthday, with organizers of the Freedom 250 Salute to America are delaying the event\u2019s start time from 1pm to 5pm because of the expect triple-digit heat in Washington. It comes as President Donald Trump prepares to visit Mount &#8230; <a title=\"Heat Wave Forces Washington, DC to Alter July 4 Festivities\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/heat-wave-forces-washington-dc-to-alter-july-4-festivities\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Heat Wave Forces Washington, DC to Alter July 4 Festivities\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}