{"id":127101,"date":"2026-03-02T02:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T02:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/127101\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T02:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T02:41:12","slug":"irish-flag-flies-in-scranton-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/127101\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish flag flies in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The first day of March saw the raising of the Irish flag in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Lackawanna County;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Lackawanna County<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bagpipes could be heard as dozens of people gathered on courthouse square in downtown Scranton for the annual event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first day of March saw the raising of the Irish flag in Lackawanna County. Bagpipes could be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[59272,6657,59271,59273,59270,201,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-127101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-ancient-order-of-hibernians","tag-courthouse-square","tag-irish-cultural-society","tag-irish-flag","tag-irish-immigrants","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127101","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=127101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}