{"id":16706,"date":"2025-07-26T20:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T20:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=16706"},"modified":"2025-07-26T20:17:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T20:17:38","slug":"community-day-at-the-african-american-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/26\/community-day-at-the-african-american-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Day at the African American Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16707 size-medium alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0851-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0851-300x226.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0851-332x250.jpg 332w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0851.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Truth Staff<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This year several new features were added to this 20<sup>th<\/sup> annual African American Festival. Starting at noon on Friday, July 18, a few hours after the Prayer Breakfast at Indiana Avenue Missionary Baptist had ended, a Community Day commenced in the parking lot of the Toledo Urban Federal Credit Union\u2019s Monroe Street Branch.<\/p>\n<p>Food trucks, vendors, a bouncy house for the kids and a live band for the adults brought in hundreds of neighborhood residents to enjoy the daytime party.<\/p>\n<p>Most impressively, perhaps, was that the credit union handed out free food tickets for the food trucks. The community day lasted until 3 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Truth Staff This year several new features were added to this 20th annual African American Festival. Starting at noon on Friday, July 18, a few hours after the Prayer Breakfast at Indiana Avenue Missionary Baptist had ended, a Community Day commenced in the parking lot of the Toledo Urban Federal Credit Union\u2019s Monroe Street [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[250,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[303],"class_list":["post-16706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16709,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16706\/revisions\/16709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16706"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=16706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}