{"id":145703,"date":"2026-03-23T03:28:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T03:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/145703\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T03:28:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T03:28:06","slug":"reptile-enthusiasts-slither-to-scranton-for-10th-annual-electric-city-reptile-expo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/145703\/","title":{"rendered":"Reptile enthusiasts slither to Scranton for 10th annual Electric City Reptile Expo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reptile enthusiasts gathered at Scranton&#8217;s Electric City Reptile Expo to buy, sell, and trade snakes, lizards, and turtles, with vendors from across the region. <\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 The 10th annual Electric City Reptile Expo was held at the Hilton Conference Center in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Scranton<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reptile enthusiasts got the chance to buy, sell and trade various kinds of animals of the reptilian variety, such as snakes, lizards and turtles.<\/p>\n<p>The event also featured dozens of vendors who came out from all over the region for the special day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We not trying to buy anything and we were walking by and I said if there&#8217;s a blood python here it&#8217;s the only thing that I might possibly buy and he was just&#8230;he was there. I wanted one for months so,&#8221; said Nick Beard from Stroudsburg.<\/p>\n<p>A lucky python&#8217;s name is now &#8216;meatloaf&#8217; after being brought home from the expo.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reptile enthusiasts gathered at Scranton&#8217;s Electric City Reptile Expo to buy, sell, and trade snakes, lizards, and turtles,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-145703","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\/145703","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=145703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}