{"id":161243,"date":"2022-06-30T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/i-knew-i-had-to-be-at-this-stanley-cup-parade-draws-colorado-avalanche-fans-to-downtown-denver"},"modified":"2022-06-30T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T20:15:00","slug":"i-knew-i-had-to-be-at-this-stanley-cup-parade-draws-colorado-avalanche-fans-to-downtown-denver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/i-knew-i-had-to-be-at-this-stanley-cup-parade-draws-colorado-avalanche-fans-to-downtown-denver","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I knew I had to be at this&#8217;: Stanley Cup parade draws Colorado Avalanche fans to downtown Denver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of thousands of Colorado Avalanche fans filled the streets of downtown Denver on Thursday to celebrate the team&#8217;s third Stanley Cup victory. Some fans came from as far as Albuquerque.By 6:30 a.m., burgundy, blue and white clad fans started staking their spot near the front of the rally site on Bannock Street across from the Denver City and County building.&#8220;This is the first time we&#8217;ve gotten a chance to see an Avalanche parade,&#8221; said Eddie McRorie, 35, of Littleton, who staked out the front-row real estate with his boys Terrell, 8, and Liam, 8.&#8220;I&#8217;m so happy the Avs won the Stanley Cup,&#8221; said Terrell McRorie, as the boys played cards to kill time before the festivities.Jeff Cislo, 47, of Castle Rock with his daughter, Mikayla, 16, and her friend Avery Weise, 15 of Parker, ready to celebrate at Civic Center Park Thursday.&nbsp; DENNIS HUSPENI\/THE DENVER GAZETTEBill Bontempo of Parker and his daughter, Skylar, stake out a spot in front<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of thousands of Colorado Avalanche fans filled the streets of downtown Denver on Thursday to celebrate the team&#8217;s third Stanley Cup victory. Some fans came from as far as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[150,149,58],"class_list":["post-161243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}