{"id":136675,"date":"2026-03-12T19:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/136675\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T19:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:33:07","slug":"bob-vance-actor-to-appear-at-office-5k-in-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/136675\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Vance actor to appear at Office 5K in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON \u2014 The Office 5K: Season Five returns to Scranton on Saturday, May 2, bringing hundreds of fans to run through the real locations featured in NBC\u2019s \u201cThe Office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s guest cast member is Bobby Ray Shafer Jr., who played Bob Vance, owner of Vance Refrigeration, and Phyllis\u2019 husband. He made a cameo in the first episode of \u201cThe Paper,\u201d a recent spinoff of \u201cThe Office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over 500 runners are already registered. Event details and registration are online at <a href=\"http:\/\/theoffice5k.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">theoffice5k.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The race benefits the local nonprofit Valley In Motion.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Chris Campion, Scranton, holds a &quot;World's Best Boss&quot; mug during the Office 5K in downtown Scranton on Saturday, May 3, 2025. (REBECCA PARTICKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\" width=\"3000\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/STT-L-OFFICE-050325-04.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1295552\" \/>Chris Campion, Scranton, holds a \u201cWorld\u2019s Best Boss\u201d mug during the Office 5K in downtown Scranton on Saturday, May 3, 2025. (REBECCA PARTICKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON \u2014 The Office 5K: Season Five returns to Scranton on Saturday, May 2, bringing hundreds of fans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1681,201,182,28,178,180,179,289],"class_list":["post-136675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-entertainment","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136675","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=136675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}