{"id":5358,"date":"2016-11-14T16:41:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T21:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nickelodeonparents.com\/?p=5358"},"modified":"2016-11-18T13:39:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T18:39:47","slug":"the-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nickelodeonparents.com\/the-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade-by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day Parade\u00ae: By the Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before all of the cooking and football watching starts, it\u2019s fun to gather around the TV in pajamas to watch the Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Day Parade. This year, the <strong>90th<\/strong>\u00a0Parade will begin at <strong>9am\u00a0on Thursday, November 24th,<\/strong> and the entire Nickelodeon family will have our eyes glued to the screen!<\/p>\n<p>Here are some lesser-known facts about the Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Day Parade, by the numbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>174<\/strong> giant character balloons have appeared\u00a0in the parade since <strong>1927<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The 2016 parade will have <strong>16<\/strong> giant character balloons, <strong>24<\/strong> novelty balloons, balloonicles, balloonheads, and trycaloons, <strong>26<\/strong> floats, <strong>12<\/strong> marching bands, <strong>1,100<\/strong> dancers, and <strong>1,000+<\/strong> clowns.<\/li>\n<li>The SpongeBob SquarePants balloon is <strong>34<\/strong> feet wide and he wears a <strong>6-<\/strong><strong>foot<\/strong><strong>-wide\u00a0<\/strong>jingle bell and a holiday hat with <strong>5\u00a0feet\u00a0<\/strong>of\u00a0fur trim. That\u2019s one giant sponge!<\/li>\n<li>This will be SpongeBob\u2019s <strong>11th year<\/strong> in the Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Day Parade.<\/li>\n<li>The TMNT Float is <strong>3 stories<\/strong> high and depicts rooftops, fire escapes, city window ledges, and a zip line down the wires of telephone poles. Sounds gnarly!<\/li>\n<li><strong>5.5<\/strong> <strong>miles:<\/strong>\u00a0The length of the original Parade route, which started at 145<sup>th<\/sup> Street and ended at 34<sup>th<\/sup> Street and Herald Square.<\/li>\n<li><strong>78<\/strong> <strong>feet: <\/strong>The length of the longest balloon in this year\u2019s Parade: the Red Mighty Morphin&#8217; Power Ranger.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5361\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nickelodeonparents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/misc-macysParade-article4x3.jpg\" alt=\"Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade: By the Numbers\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nickelodeonparents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/misc-macysParade-article4x3.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.nickelodeonparents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/misc-macysParade-article4x3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nickelodeonparents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/misc-macysParade-article4x3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nickelodeonparents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/misc-macysParade-article4x3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nickelodeonparents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/misc-macysParade-article4x3-180x136.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before all of the cooking and football watching starts, it\u2019s fun to gather around the TV in pajamas to watch the Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Day Parade. This year, the 90th\u00a0Parade will begin at 9am\u00a0on Thursday, November 24th, and the entire Nickelodeon family will have our eyes glued to the screen! Here are some lesser-known facts about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":5359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickelodeonparents.com\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickelodeonparents.com\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickelodeonparents.com\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickelodeonparents.com\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickelodeonparents.com\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickelodeonparents.com\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5397,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickelodeonparents.com\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5358\/revisions\/5397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickelodeonparents.com\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickelodeonparents.com\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickelodeonparents.com\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickelodeonparents.com\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}