{"id":103239,"date":"2026-02-02T21:31:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/103239\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T21:31:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:31:06","slug":"groundhogs-day-divination-city-state-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/103239\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundhog\u2019s Day divination &#8211; City &#038; State Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the eyes of a frozen populace turned toward a small town in Jefferson County for a glimmer of hope about when winter will stop coming, we couldn\u2019t help but wonder: What if Punxsutawney Phil could predict when other endurance tests could end?<\/p>\n<p>City &amp; State has some Groundhog\u2019s Day predictions and prognostications for Pennsylvania that could be too good to be true \u2013 or could be a sign we\u2019re all in a time loop. Would you rather any of these bold takes come true, or would you like another six weeks of winter as Phil predicted Monday morning?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Phil turns his ankle getting out of his den: six-to-eight-week recovery and rehab\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Phil sees Josh Shapiro smiling for the cameras: six more years of television appearances<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"content-media content-img\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24181_dced_groundhogday2024_dz_0002-inline.jpg\" width=\"2000\"\/><br \/>\nPhoto credit: Commonwealth Media Services<\/p>\n<p>Phil sees a shadowy figure in the distance: six more weeks of ICE agents on the streets\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Phil sees a hologram of himself produced by PETA: he spends the next six weeks in a relationship with an AI groundhog<\/p>\n<p>Phil doesn\u2019t see any early-morning tailgaters: The Steelers, Pirates, Penguins, Eagles, Phillies and Flyers will all miss the playoffs<\/p>\n<p>Phil sees a \u201cDelinquency Notice\u201d envelope blowing in the wind: the state budget will be delayed by six weeks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the eyes of a frozen populace turned toward a small town in Jefferson County for a glimmer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,13472,13473],"class_list":{"0":"post-103239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","10":"tag-pennsylvania-news","11":"tag-personality","12":"tag-satire-odd-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}