{"id":2924,"date":"2012-10-30T14:43:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T18:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=2924"},"modified":"2012-10-30T14:43:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T18:43:59","slug":"city-hosted-festive-prelude-to-frankenstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=2924","title":{"rendered":"City hosted festive prelude to Frankenstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Halloween Parade showcased ravages of nature while escaping real one<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2935\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Image-16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2935\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2935 \" style=\"border-width: 2px; border-color: black; border-style: solid; margin: 4px;\" title=\"Image 1\" src=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Image-16-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Image-16-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Image-16.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2935\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parade participants assembled at East Lincoln Highway and Third Avenue.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Coatesville&#8217;s Halloween Parade may have benefited from telepathic powers: Monsters stalked city streets before the threat of a monstrous storm materialized.<span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the Third Annual Coatesville Halloween entertained spectators with a procession of ghouls, ghosts, and ghastly creatures along Lincoln Highway, accompanied by an escort of \u00a0city police officers and firefighters.\u00a0Sponsored by the Coatesville Parks and Recreation Commission and the Coatesville Community Policing Committee, the parade has gotten bigger each year, said\u00a0Marie Hess, who heads the city&#8217;s Parks and Recreation Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Hess said representatives of Maranatha Christian Academy greeted participants with refreshments before the parade began. She said prizes were awarded \u00a0in three age categories &#8211; 0 to 5, 6 to 11, and 12 to 17 &#8211; as well as a group award, which went to a family of Ghostbusters this year. Hess said each year the parade gains in popularity.<\/p>\n<p>The weather gods were more kindly this time around, Hess said. &#8220;Last year we were forced to move the parade because of an out-of-the-ordinary October snowstorm,&#8221; she said. &#8220;This year we made it one day before the hurricane.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween Parade showcased ravages of nature while escaping real one Coatesville&#8217;s Halloween Parade may have benefited from telepathic powers: Monsters stalked city streets before the threat of a monstrous storm materialized.\u00a0 On Saturday, the Third Annual Coatesville Halloween entertained spectators with a procession of ghouls, ghosts, and ghastly creatures along Lincoln Highway, accompanied by an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,172,3],"tags":[24,713,1007],"class_list":["post-2924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-community","category-events","category-featured","tag-coatesville","tag-coatesville-parks-and-recreation-commission","tag-third-annual-coatesville-halloween-parade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}