{"id":36511,"date":"2026-08-12T09:38:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T13:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=36511"},"modified":"2026-08-12T09:38:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T13:38:58","slug":"how-to-navigate-the-worlds-biggest-car-event-the-woodward-dream-cruise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/how-to-navigate-the-worlds-biggest-car-event-the-woodward-dream-cruise","title":{"rendered":"How to navigate the world&#8217;s biggest car event, the Woodward Dream Cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/08\/16\/PDTN\/85691391007-20250816-dgdreamcruise-0633.jpg?width=660&amp;height=440&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Cars roll up and down Woodward Ave. during the Woodward Dream Cruise, in Birmingham, August 16, 2025.\" width=\"507\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"gnt_pg_img_cap\"><em>Cars roll up and down Woodward Ave. during the Woodward Dream Cruise, in Birmingham, August 16, 2025.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>David Guralnick, The Detroit News<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">As is tradition, the Cruise actually kicks off at 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 14, on Nine Mile in Ferndale with a ribbon-cutting led by Michael Lary, Ferndale special events director and president of the Dream Cruise for 21 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">At 5:30 p.m., the Ferndale Emergency Vehicle Show in Nine Mile rumbles to life \u2015 rolling up Woodward to 11 Mile and back for the annual Lights &amp; Sirens Cruise Parade. Look for an array of modern\/classic police, fire, military and other EMS machinery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/picture-gallery\/media\/photo\/2025\/08\/16\/the-2025-woodward-dream-cruise\/85690104007\/\">Read full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cars roll up and down Woodward Ave. during the Woodward Dream Cruise, in Birmingham, August 16, 2025. David Guralnick, The Detroit News As is tradition, the Cruise actually kicks off at 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 14, on Nine Mile in Ferndale with a ribbon-cutting led by Michael Lary, Ferndale special events director and president of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36512,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36511\/revisions\/36512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}