{"id":119437,"date":"2021-11-10T18:02:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T23:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=119437"},"modified":"2021-11-10T18:02:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T23:02:41","slug":"city-of-austin-cancels-veterans-day-parade-due-to-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=119437","title":{"rendered":"City of Austin cancels Veterans Day parade due to COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, this isn&#8217;t an article from a year ago accidentally published only now. It&#8217;s 2021 and, despite the State of Texas having been fully open for business for ages, the City of Austin&#8217;s restrictive COVID policies forces the cancellation of the Veterans Day parade originally scheduled for tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of the city that is the state capitol and whose unofficial motto is &#8220;Keep Austin weird&#8221; pointed out some of the ironies. For example, Fox reports them noting;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Q2 Stadium, where Austin FC plays its home games, seats more than 20,000 fans and has been operating at 100% capacity this season.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Parade organizers were expecting the outdoor event to receive 30,000 attendees.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/austin-veterans-day-canceled-abbott#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox<\/a> has the rest of the report;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has invited military veterans in Austin, Texas to gather at the state capitol building after their Veterans Day parade was cancelled due to the city\u2019s coronavirus restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The City of Austin&#8217;s overreaching COVID requirements have forced the Austin Veterans Parade Foundation to cancel their annual event,&#8221; the Republican governor tweeted Tuesday. &#8220;I&#8217;m inviting them to host a rally on the south steps of the Texas State Capitol. We celebrate our nation&#8217;s heroes in Texas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is something that we could not do as we anticipated some 30,000 attendees to the parade,&#8221; the parade organizers said in a statement. &#8220;We are hopeful that in 2022, the restrictions on public gatherings will be back to normal. In lue of the parade, we are working with the City of Austin and the Austin Veterans Commission to dedicate the Veterans Park on Nov. 11th.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The parade organizers later announced that they have &#8220;respectfully declined&#8221; Abbott\u2019s invitation and noted that they have already committed to an event dedicating Veterans Pocket Park in Austin at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, according to Fox 7 Austin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, this isn&#8217;t an article from a year ago accidentally published only now. It&#8217;s 2021 and, &hellip; <a title=\"City of Austin cancels Veterans Day parade due to COVID\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=119437\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">City of Austin cancels Veterans Day parade due to COVID<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[484,177,47,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19","category-dumbass-bullshit","category-liberals-suck","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119439,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119437\/revisions\/119439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}