{"id":60821,"date":"2025-07-03T20:30:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T00:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=60821"},"modified":"2025-07-03T20:32:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T00:32:51","slug":"lehigh-acres-residents-adjust-plans-after-freedom-fest-fireworks-canceled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2025\/07\/lehigh-acres-residents-adjust-plans-after-freedom-fest-fireworks-canceled\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Acres residents adjust plans after Freedom Fest fireworks canceled"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Storms in Southwest Florida are posing challenges for Fourth of July celebrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recent heavy rainfall has led to the cancellation of the Freedom Fest fireworks event in Lehigh Acres, leaving residents having to adjust their plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a post on the webpage of the event\u2019s main sponsor and founder, the\u00a0Southwest Florida Business Alliance, the word &#8220;<strong>CANCELED<\/strong>&#8221; precedes the event&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/4th-of-July-Flyer-1187x1536-1-791x1024.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/4th-of-July-Flyer-1187x1536-1-791x1024.avif 791w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/4th-of-July-Flyer-1187x1536-1-232x300.avif 232w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/4th-of-July-Flyer-1187x1536-1-768x994.avif 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/4th-of-July-Flyer-1187x1536-1.avif 1187w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storms in Southwest Florida are posing challenges for Fourth of July celebrations. Recent heavy rainfall has led to the cancellation of the Freedom Fest fireworks event in Lehigh Acres, leaving&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":60824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[3082],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60823,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60821\/revisions\/60823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}