{"id":161604,"date":"2026-04-09T17:22:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/161604\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:22:06","slug":"celebrating-the-nations-250th-birthday-across-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/161604\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the nation&#8217;s 250th birthday across Pa."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>America250 was created to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the United States and encourage Americans to take part in events and milestones leading up to July 4, 2026. <\/p>\n<p>In Pennsylvania, America250PA is working to engage residents in all 67 counties by highlighting the commonwealth&#8217;s role in the nation&#8217;s founding, encouraging conversations about history and its impact today, and inspiring civic involvement for future generations. <\/p>\n<p>As part of that effort, WGAL News 8 is highlighting stories from across the Susquehanna Valley that honor the region&#8217;s history, people and milestones. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"America250 was created to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the United States and encourage Americans to take part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8120,17169,2479,136,60870,1508,94,13832,11611,6016,28,30,29,72877,73,5608,2685],"class_list":{"0":"post-161604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-america250","9":"tag-america250pa","10":"tag-commonwealth","11":"tag-erie","12":"tag-future-generation","13":"tag-hershey","14":"tag-history","15":"tag-june","16":"tag-nation","17":"tag-part","18":"tag-pennsylvania","19":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","20":"tag-pennsylvania-news","21":"tag-pittsburg-state-college","22":"tag-pittsburgh","23":"tag-place","24":"tag-wilkes-barre"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161604","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=161604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}