{"id":164207,"date":"2026-04-13T03:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T03:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/164207\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T03:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T03:15:07","slug":"scranton-half-marathon-draws-nearly-3000-runners-boosting-local-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/164207\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton Half Marathon draws nearly 3,000 runners, boosting local businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 On Sunday, runners in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County<\/a> took off at 8 a.m. this morning for the 13th edition of the Scranton Half Marathon.<\/p>\n<p>This year, nearly 3,000 people signed up for the 13.1-mile race through the city, bringing increased exposure and revenue for local businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Newswatch 16&#8217;s very own Anthony Bordanaro took part in the race.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s race began and ended along Providence Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 On Sunday, runners in Lackawanna County took off at 8 a.m. this morning for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-164207","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\/164207","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=164207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}