{"id":4706,"date":"2019-07-01T06:26:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T11:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/?p=4706"},"modified":"2019-07-01T06:26:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T11:26:02","slug":"oregon-county-independence-day-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/lifestyle\/recreation\/oregon-county-independence-day-activities-20190701","title":{"rendered":"Oregon County Independence Day Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alton, Mo. \u2013 <\/strong>All around Oregon County, Missouri, residents celebrate our nation&#8217;s Independence Day. Beginning before the actual fourth of July, the celebrating begins. Besides tents strung up selling fireworks, here are some local celebrations.<\/p>\n<h4>County Seat Festivities in Alton, Mo<\/h4>\n<p>Right in the county seat, Alton, Missouri, celebrating begins on Wednesday, July 3, 2019. Piney Creek Park opens for children&#8217;s games and live music, followed by the color guard and then the fireworks display.<\/p>\n<h4>Thayer Celebrates<\/h4>\n<p>Just down the road from Alton is Thayer, MO. The scene of fun will be the Thayer High School. After opening the gates at 5:00 p.m. a live band begins performing.\u00a0 At 6:00 p.m. the color guard arrives and air evac makes a helicopter landing. Skydivers jump into the scene at 6:30 p.m. Food and activities will be at the site, along with free watermelon.\u00a0 A terrific fireworks show commences at 9:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<h4>Thomasville Independence Day Observance<\/h4>\n<p>Thomasville, Missouri is just north of Alton. Once again, the residents have fun on the fourth. The excitement begins at 4:00 p.m. with a cornhole tournament. They, too, will have free games for the children. Food will be available, besides a pie auction. Live music begins at 8:00 p.m. Fireworks closes the night.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All around Oregon County, Missouri, residents celebrate our nation&#8217;s Independence Day. Beginning before the actual fourth of July, the celebrating begins. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[243,225,229,250,248,201,264],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4706"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4739,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706\/revisions\/4739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}