{"id":7545,"date":"2024-07-02T09:44:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T12:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=7545"},"modified":"2024-07-02T09:49:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T12:49:54","slug":"hundreds-line-liverpool-streets-for-privateer-days-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/07\/02\/hundreds-line-liverpool-streets-for-privateer-days-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds line Liverpool streets for Privateer Days parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7548\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7548\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7548\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/privateerparade-1024x621.jpeg\" alt=\"A colourful parade float with a huge clock with the words 'I'm late! I'm late!' on top and a large yellow teapot, with children and adults dancing around it.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/privateerparade-1024x621.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/privateerparade-768x466.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/privateerparade-1536x932.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/privateerparade-2048x1243.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A float from the Mersey Rose Theatre Company promoting the youth musical Alice in Wonderland, Jr., was one of the top floats in the Privateer Days parade on Saturday. (Rick Conrad)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hundreds of people from around Nova Scotia lined the streets of downtown Liverpool on Saturday for the Privateer Days Parade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was part of the 39th annual Privateer Days celebration which began Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The two-day festival featured the parade as well as a food and vendor market, amusement park rides and lots of other activities around town.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Float winners were:<\/p>\n<p>1st place: Funky Witches of the Mist<br \/>\n2nd place: Mersey Rose Theatre Company<br \/>\n3rd place: Mersey Seafoods<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Listen below for some of the sounds and reaction from the parade on Saturday<\/span><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7545-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/privateerparadejul124.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/privateerparadejul124.mp3\">https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/privateerparadejul124.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people from around Nova Scotia lined the streets of downtown Liverpool on Saturday for the Privateer Days Parade. It was part of the 39th annual Privateer Days celebration which began Friday. The two-day festival featured the parade as well as a food and vendor market, amusement park rides and lots of other activities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[2426,2424,2074,39,2164,1277,194,2422,2423,2425],"class_list":["post-7545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-amusement-park-rides","tag-floats","tag-food","tag-liverpool","tag-min-smale","tag-parade","tag-privateer-days","tag-privateer-days-parade","tag-privateers","tag-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7545"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7552,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7545\/revisions\/7552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}