{"id":901,"date":"2011-03-08T15:19:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T15:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/?p=901"},"modified":"2011-03-08T15:19:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T15:19:13","slug":"famous-april-events-boston-marathon-in-boston-and-patriots-day-parades-in-lexington-and-concord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/?p=901","title":{"rendered":"Famous April Events: Boston Marathon in Boston and Patriot&#8217;s Day Parades in Lexington and Concord"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_902\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_902\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 150px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/BostonMarathon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-902\" title=\"Boston Marathon\" src=\"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/BostonMarathon-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of Boston Marathon. Photo Credit: Sarah Musumeci, http:\/\/www.massvacation.com\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture of Boston Marathon. Photo Credit: Sarah Musumeci, http:\/\/www.massvacation.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe that this seemingly endless New England winter will soon give way to spring, and two fun, famous New England events &#8212; the Boston Marathon and the Patriot&#8217;s Day Weekend Parades in Lexington and Concord, Mass.<\/p>\n<p>Lexington and Concord are well-known as the starting points of the Revolutionary War, so it&#8217;s no surprise that both towns offer fantastic Patriot&#8217;s Day parades, as well as other related activities from April 9-23. \u00a0The parades remain our personal favorite events with authentic reenactments and colorful Colonial&#8221;period&#8221; groups marching the parade. The parades in Lexington and Concord are scheduled for Monday, April 18. For a complete list of events, log onto the <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/mima\/patriots-day.htm\">National Park Service&#8217;s\u00a0Patriot&#8217;s Day<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s Boston Marathon will be held, Mon., April 18.\u00a0This famous 26-mile running event starts in Hopkinton, Mass., and ends in Boston. \u00a0The Boston Marathon is the world&#8217;s oldest annual marathon! Log onto the <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baa.org\/\">Boston Athletic Association Web Site<\/a> for complete details on the Boston Marathon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe that this seemingly endless New England winter will soon give way to spring, and two fun, famous New England events &#8212; the Boston Marathon and the Patriot&#8217;s Day Weekend Parades in Lexington and Concord, Mass. Lexington and Concord are well-known as the starting points of the Revolutionary War, so it&#8217;s no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[257,283,275,268,273],"tags":[694,696,695],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}