{"id":13500,"date":"2020-03-10T15:03:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T10:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=13500"},"modified":"2020-03-10T15:03:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T10:03:07","slug":"st-patricks-day-parades-cancel-amid-coronavirus-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/13500","title":{"rendered":"St. Patrick\u2019s Day parades cancel amid coronavirus fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City still plans to hold a St. Patrick\u2019s Day parade amid the\u00a0coronavirus outbreak, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday as both Boston and Dublin announced they would null their celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, we do not have a plan to cancel the parade at this point,\u201d Hizzoner said at a press conference Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[It\u2019s] Going to be day to day, hour to hour, it\u2019s a lot of factors,\u201d he added about the decision to press on with the parade. \u201cClearly we\u2019re going to watch the progression, how quickly this disease progresses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boston Mayor Martin Walsh said in a statement announcing the city\u2019s parade cancellation that their top priority is \u201cpreventing any new cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A parade scheduled for next week in Dublin was also called off because of the virus threat, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City still plans to hold a St. Patrick\u2019s Day parade amid the\u00a0coronavirus outbreak, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday as both Boston and Dublin announced they would null their celebrations. \u201cNo, we do not have a plan to cancel the parade at this point,\u201d Hizzoner said at a press conference Monday afternoon. \u201c[It\u2019s] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13502,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13500\/revisions\/13502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}