{"id":169694,"date":"2026-04-18T23:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169694\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T23:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:07:08","slug":"electric-city-tattoo-convention-returns-to-downtown-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169694\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric City Tattoo Convention returns to downtown Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 On Saturday, the 15th annual Electric City Tattoo Convention returned to the Hilton in downtown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Scranton<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More than 200 tattoo artists from all over the country are under the same roof for this weekend&#8217;s event, giving those who want some fresh ink the perfect opportunity to make it happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody&#8217;s happy to be here, you know. I mean, if they&#8217;re not coming to get tattooed, then they&#8217;re just coming to hobnob with people and people watch and socialize, and yeah, it&#8217;s a positive vibe, you know. I like to think there&#8217;s very few negative people here,&#8221; said Elijah Birtel, the Co-Organizer of the event.<\/p>\n<p>The tattoo convention goes today until 11 p.m. and Sunday from noon until 8 p.m. in downtown Scranton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 On Saturday, the 15th annual Electric City Tattoo Convention returned to the Hilton in downtown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-169694","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\/169694","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=169694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}