{"id":9393,"date":"2018-11-25T22:03:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T03:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=9393"},"modified":"2019-12-31T14:15:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T19:15:41","slug":"malden-holiday-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2018\/11\/25\/malden-holiday-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Malden Celebrates Winter Holidays With Military-Themed Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Malden held its annual Parade of Holiday Traditions yesterday. As usual Ward 7 City Councilor Neal Anderson\u2019 annual wintery float staffed by elves and the Aleppo Unit of Shriners Clowns appeared. But this year, city officials had elementary school groups highlight veterans. \u201cEach school will bring its own unique presence to the parade, either with a float or demonstration, featuring the theme of \u2018Thank you Veterans \u2013 we are grateful for your service,\u2019\u201d<\/a> according to an announcement from Mayor Gary Christenson. This gave the winter holiday parade a distinctly military flavor\u2014plus the addition of the model of the USS Thresher (SSN-593) Memorial Parade Float<\/a> from the Marblehead Base of the United States Submarine Veterans, honoring the nuclear-powered attack submarine that sank during dive tests 220 miles east of Boston in 1963 killing 129 people.<\/p>\n

Other groups participating in the parade included the Malden High School marching band, Malden Pop Warner Football, bagpipers, dance academies, and Malden Reads in collaboration with the Malden Public Library and Wonderland Spectacle Co. (of which I’m a co-founder) to celebrate the community’s “one city, one book” program.<\/p>\n

\"Beebe<\/a>
Beebe School float in Malden Parade of Holiday Traditions, Nov. 24, 2018. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Linden<\/a>
Linden STEAM Academy float in Malden Parade of Holiday Traditions, Nov. 24, 2018. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Linden<\/a>
Linden STEAM Academy float in Malden Parade of Holiday Traditions, Nov. 24, 2018. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Salemwood<\/a>
Salemwood School group in Malden Parade of Holiday Traditions, Nov. 24, 2018. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Ferryway<\/a>
Ferryway School float in Malden Parade of Holiday Traditions, Nov. 24, 2018. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Wah<\/a>
Wah Lum Kung Fu & Thai Chi Academy in Malden Parade of Holiday Traditions, Nov. 24, 2018. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"USS<\/a>
USS Thresher nuclear-powered attack submarine memorial float from the Marblehead Base of the United States Submarine Veterans in Malden Parade of Holiday Traditions, Nov. 24, 2018. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Forestdale<\/a>
Forestdale School float in Malden Parade of Holiday Traditions, Nov. 24, 2018. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Malden<\/a>
Malden Reads collaborated with the Malden Public Library and Wonderland Spectacle Co. (of which I’m a co-founder) to celebrate the community’s “one city, one book” program, Nov. 24, 2018. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Malden<\/a>
Malden Reads collaborated with the Malden Public Library and Wonderland Spectacle Co. (of which I’m a co-founder) to celebrate the community’s “one city, one book” program, Nov. 24, 2018. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Malden held its annual Parade of Holiday Traditions yesterday. As usual Ward 7 City Councilor Neal Anderson\u2019 annual wintery float staffed by elves and the Aleppo Unit of Shriners Clowns appeared. But this year, city officials had elementary school groups highlight veterans. \u201cEach school will bring its own unique presence to the parade, either with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,119,103],"tags":[41,9,78],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9393"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9411,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9393\/revisions\/9411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}