{"id":140144,"date":"2026-03-17T00:51:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T00:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140144\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T00:51:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T00:51:32","slug":"inside-the-just-born-quality-confections-peeps-factory-in-bethlehem-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140144\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Just Born Quality Confections &#8220;Peeps\u201d factory in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                You might see and maybe even eat a lot of them this weekend.&#13;<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s here that a family-owned candy factory in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, is churning out &#8220;Peeps&#8221; for Easter.&#13;<br \/>\nJust Born Quality Confections cranks out an average of five and a half million Peeps daily. &#13;<br \/>\nThat adds up to a whopping 2 billion Peeps a year.&#13;<br \/>\nPeeps date back to 1953. &#13;<br \/>\nThey tend to draw a mix of sweet and sour reactions.\n                      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You might see and maybe even eat a lot of them this weekend.&#13; It&#8217;s here that a family-owned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,42863,28],"class_list":["post-140144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-easter","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140144","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=140144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}