{"id":145715,"date":"2026-03-23T04:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T04:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/145715\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T04:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T04:04:11","slug":"reptile-enthusiasts-slither-to-scranton-for-10th-annual-electric-city-reptile-expo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/145715\/","title":{"rendered":"Reptile enthusiasts slither to Scranton for 10th annual Electric City Reptile Expo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 10th annual Electric City Reptile Expo was held at the Hilton Conference Center in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Scranton;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Scranton&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Scranton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The event also featured dozens of vendors who came out from all over the region for the special day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A lucky python&#8217;s name is now &#8216;meatloaf&#8217; after being brought home from the expo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 10th annual Electric City Reptile Expo was held at the Hilton Conference Center in Scranton. Reptile enthusiasts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[66456,66458,66459,66460,66457,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-145715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-hilton-conference-center","tag-kinds-of-animals","tag-nick-beard","tag-reptile-enthusiasts","tag-reptile-expo","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145715","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=145715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}