{"id":66242,"date":"2022-07-05T14:40:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T14:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/the-band-struck-up-a-joyous-tune-as-they-traveled-in-the-parade-then-the-shooting-started"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:40:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T14:40:53","slug":"the-band-struck-up-a-joyous-tune-as-they-traveled-in-the-parade-then-the-shooting-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/the-band-struck-up-a-joyous-tune-as-they-traveled-in-the-parade-then-the-shooting-started","title":{"rendered":"The band struck up a joyous tune as they traveled in the parade. Then the shooting started."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Prager, 66, and his klezmer band were set up Monday morning in chairs on a slow-moving flatbed truck as they pulled into the lineup for Highland Park&#8217;s Fourth of July parade. There hadn&#8217;t been a parade for three years, since before the pandemic. &#8220;People were so happy to be out,&#8221; he told USA TODAY. Maxwell Street Klezmer Band launched into an upbeat tune, a song made for weddings and celebrations. That&#8217;s when they started seeing people running. At first, Prager thought there must be a celebrity or something in the parade they were running to see. FBI:Suspect in deadly 4th of July mass shooting in Highland Park has Rockford ties&#8220;Then I saw panic on their faces,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We saw moms and dads with strollers. We saw adults. We saw young people. And they&#8217;re all coming toward us.&#8221;Six people were killed and dozens more were injured Monday after a gunman opened fire on the parade around 10 a.m. in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Prager, 66, and his klezmer band were set up Monday morning in chairs on a slow-moving flatbed truck as they pulled into the lineup for Highland Park&#8217;s Fourth of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,12],"class_list":["post-66242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66242","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=66242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}