{"id":857,"date":"2012-09-07T12:23:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T12:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/?p=857"},"modified":"2012-09-07T12:23:44","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T12:23:44","slug":"thousands-line-up-for-west-indian-day-parade-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/thousands-line-up-for-west-indian-day-parade-in-new-york.html","title":{"rendered":"Thousands line up for West Indian Day parade in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Metro New York<\/em> reports on the 2012 West Indian\/Caribbean-American Carnival, which is hosted annually in Brooklyn New York.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.us\/newyork\/local\/article\/1151139--thousands-line-up-for-west-indian-day-parade-in-new-york\"><img src='https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/873111ca4de6b8f93711ae931b88.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Grey skies and threats of rain didn\u2019t deter the thousands who celebrated New York\u2019s thriving Caribbean heritage with a vibrant parade on the streets of Crown Heights on Labor Day.<\/p>\n<p>Participants were covered in body paint and elaborate feathered costumes. People practice all year long for parade dances.<\/p>\n<p>People waved flags, played drums, danced and wore bright costumes of feathers, sequins and little else.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governor Andrew Cuomo and Parade Grand Marshal Harry Belafonte all joined in to honor Caribbean cultures.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD had no reports of violence or unrest at the parade, but there were two shootings and a stabbing after the parade, according to the Daily News. Last year, a bystander was killed by a police officer\u2019s stray bullet during a shooting after the parade.<\/p>\n<p>For original report:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.us\/newyork\/local\/article\/1151139--thousands-line-up-for-west-indian-day-parade-in-new-york\"> Metro &#8211; Thousands line up for West Indian Day parade in New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro New York reports on the 2012 West Indian\/Caribbean-American Carnival, which is hosted annually in Brooklyn New York. Grey skies and threats of rain didn\u2019t deter the thousands who celebrated New York\u2019s thriving Caribbean heritage with a vibrant parade on the streets of Crown Heights on Labor Day. Participants were covered in body paint and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[239,1],"tags":[177,294],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diaspora","category-festivals","tag-new-york","tag-west-indian-day-parade"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4zx0X-dP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}