{"id":15561,"date":"2020-05-27T15:29:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T19:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=15561"},"modified":"2020-05-27T15:29:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T19:29:29","slug":"lilburn-cancels-fourth-of-july-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=15561","title":{"rendered":"Lilburn cancels Fourth of July event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LILBURN &#8212; The City of Lilburn has postponed its July 4th event, Sparkle in the Park. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The annual event, which includes a concert, activities, and fireworks, draws thousands of people to Lilburn City Park and downtown Lilburn each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re disappointed, as we know many members of the community will be, that we have to postpone our annual July 4th celebration,&#8221;\u00a0said City Manager Bill Johnsa. &#8220;We believe this is the best decision due to the current situation. Postponing will allow us to revisit the event at a later date, and make a decision based on the information available at that time.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At this time, all city events originally scheduled through the end of June have been postponed or canceled due to COVID-19. Residents are encouraged to check the city&#8217;s website at\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cityoflilburn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">cityoflilburn.com<\/a>\u00a0for more event updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LILBURN &#8212; The City of Lilburn has postponed its July 4th event, Sparkle in the Park. The annual event, which includes a concert, activities, and fireworks, draws thousands of people to Lilburn City Park and downtown Lilburn each year. &#8220;We&#8217;re disappointed, as we know many members of the community will be, that we have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7286,3391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-events","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}