{"id":127039,"date":"2026-03-02T00:28:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T00:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/127039\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T00:28:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T00:28:06","slug":"irish-flag-flies-in-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/127039\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish flag flies in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the first day of March, the Irish flag was raised at courthouse square in downtown Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 The first day of March saw the raising of the Irish flag in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bagpipes could be heard as dozens of people gathered on courthouse square in downtown Scranton for the annual event.<\/p>\n<p>The hoisting of the green, white, and orange kicked off St. Patrick&#8217;s Day festivities and celebrated the culture, heritage, and history of Irish immigrants who called Lackawanna County home.<\/p>\n<p>In attendance were members of the Irish Cultural Society, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the Society of Irish Women, and the St. Patrick&#8217;s Parade Association of Lackawanna County.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the first day of March, the Irish flag was raised at courthouse square in downtown Scranton. SCRANTON,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-127039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127039","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=127039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}