{"id":173843,"date":"2019-06-14T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=173843"},"modified":"2019-06-14T10:08:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T15:08:57","slug":"st-louis-to-celebrates-blues-stanley-cup-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=173843","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis to celebrate &#8220;Blues&#8221; Stanley Cup, Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-173845\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Stanleycup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"159\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Stanleycup.jpg 159w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Stanleycup-129x175.jpg 129w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px\" \/>ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 A parade 52 years in the making will finally happen Saturday in St. Louis, when the city celebrates the Blues\u2019 first-ever Stanley Cup championship.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues defeated the Boston Bruins 4-1 in Wednesday\u2019s Game 7 in Boston. The Blues joined the NHL as an expansion team in 1967 and had never before won a championship.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues took to Twitter Thursday to announce celebration plans. A parade will start at noon at 18th and Market Street and head east. A rally will then take place beneath the Gateway Arch.<\/p>\n<p>Fans attending the celebration may want to bring an umbrella. Rain is in the forecast.<\/p>\n<p>Missouri Gov. Mike Parson also says the state Capitol dome will be lit up with blue lights in celebration Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 A parade 52 years in the making will finally happen Saturday in St. Louis, when the city celebrates the Blues\u2019 first-ever Stanley Cup championship. The Blues defeated the Boston Bruins 4-1 in Wednesday\u2019s Game 7 in Boston. The Blues joined the NHL as an expansion team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":173844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173847,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173843\/revisions\/173847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/173844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}