{"id":14991,"date":"2025-01-16T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=14991"},"modified":"2025-01-15T13:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T21:56:21","slug":"street-closures-planned-for-martin-luther-king-jr-celebration-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/street-closures-planned-for-martin-luther-king-jr-celebration-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Closures Planned for Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration March\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Motorists will find sections of some streets temporarily closed Monday, January 20<sup>th<\/sup>, for the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The march will begin Monday at 12:00 pm at Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard and North 5<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue. From there, it will proceed east on the boulevard to 8<sup>th<\/sup> Street. Participants will then head south on 8<sup>th<\/sup> Street to the Yakima Convention Center, 10 North 8<sup>th<\/sup> Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Organizers will begin setting up at 11:00 am Monday. The march is scheduled to begin at 12:00 pm and organizers anticipate it will end at 1:00 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rolling street closures are planned along the parade route. Yakima Police Department officers will manage the temporary closures as participants make their way through each block along the march route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard will be closed from North 5<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue to North 8<sup>th<\/sup> Street. Eighth Street will be closed from Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard to Yakima Avenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The march and related activities will honor the slain civil rights leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is open to the public. Organizers anticipate more than 400 participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-600b6dc8-a9c6-43df-891b-9061b3f0ffbf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Street-Closures-for-2025-MLK-Jr-March-News-Release.pdf\">Street Closures for 2025 MLK Jr March &#8211; News Release<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Street-Closures-for-2025-MLK-Jr-March-News-Release.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-600b6dc8-a9c6-43df-891b-9061b3f0ffbf\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motorists will find sections of some streets temporarily closed Monday, January 20th, for the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration March. The march will begin Monday at 12:00 pm at Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard and North 5th Avenue. From there, it will proceed east on the boulevard to 8th Street. Participants will then head<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14993,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14991\/revisions\/14993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}