{"id":123283,"date":"2026-02-25T18:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/123283\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T18:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:18:12","slug":"candlelight-vigil-in-perry-square-to-mark-ukraine-invasion-anniversary-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/123283\/","title":{"rendered":"Candlelight Vigil in Perry Square to Mark Ukraine Invasion Anniversary | State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A candlelight vigil was held on Tuesday night in Perry Square to mark the anniversary of Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"vigil.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1387\" height=\"625\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Several dozen community members gathered at dusk and lit candles while they&#8217;re listened to music.<\/p>\n<p>Community members reflected on the past four years of fighting and took the time to remember the men and women who died since the war began.<\/p>\n<p>The night ended with prayers and remarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A candlelight vigil was held on Tuesday night in Perry Square to mark the anniversary of Russia&#8217;s invasion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2394,36705,36727,524,136,138,137,57899,29797,26544,7988],"class_list":{"0":"post-123283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-anniversary","9":"tag-christian-practices","10":"tag-christian-worship-and-liturgy","11":"tag-community","12":"tag-erie","13":"tag-erie-headlines","14":"tag-erie-news","15":"tag-gathering","16":"tag-invasion","17":"tag-ukraine","18":"tag-vigil"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123283","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=123283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}