{"id":59679,"date":"2025-12-05T16:48:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=59679"},"modified":"2025-12-05T19:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T00:31:13","slug":"the-lakeland-christmas-parade-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2025\/12\/05\/the-lakeland-christmas-parade-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lakeland Christmas Parade 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 44th Annual Lakeland Christmas Parade rolls through Downtown with this year\u2019s theme, \u201cRockin\u2019&nbsp;Around Lakeland.\u201d Floats, marching bands, community groups, and first responders put a musical spin on their displays, bringing a fun, upbeat rhythm to the city\u2019s holiday tradition. Presented by the Junior League of Greater Lakeland in partnership with the City of Lakeland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lakeland Christmas Parade 2025\" width=\"1110\" height=\"833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9FksSvy0jT0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 44th annual Lakeland Christmas parade held along Main Street downtown brought so much excitement that onlookers were out early Thursday morning to set up chairs to grab the perfect spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is something we come to every year, it\u2019s just magical for the kids,\u201d said Charity Reyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The City of Lakeland said that over 40,000 people were in attendance for the spectacle, alongside more than 100 organizations that participated. Floats were organized by local law enforcement, first responders, volunteers, and neighboring businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The festivities began with a fireworks show near Lake Mirror, and the parade lasted about 90 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 44th Annual Lakeland Christmas Parade rolls through Downtown with this year\u2019s theme, \u201cRockin\u2019&nbsp;Around Lakeland.\u201d Floats, marching bands, community groups, and first responders put a musical spin on their displays,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"7591","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNVwvMTJcL1NjcmVlbnNob3QtMjAyNS0xMi0wNFQyMDUxNTEuNDQ2LndlYnA_Zml0PTY5OSUyQzM4NyZzc2w9MSIsInR4dCI6IlRoZSBMYWtlbGFuZCBDaHJpc3RtYXMgUGFyYWRlIDIwMjUiLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImhpZ2h3YXkiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.zyMh5CZwzmvZpALQkHRo69JhSd5jo5xgdhzDth8jve8MQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":59665,"url":"http:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-04T205151.446.webp","type":"image\/png"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[7591,6],"tags":[12777],"class_list":["post-59679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-of-lakeland","category-community","tag-the-lakeland-christmas-parade-2025"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59695,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59679\/revisions\/59695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}