{"id":173808,"date":"2026-04-23T12:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/173808\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:43:07","slug":"fans-gather-in-scranton-for-the-office-5k-race-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/173808\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans gather in Scranton for &#8216;The Office&#8217; 5K race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As Michael Scott once said, \u201cain\u2019t no party like a Scranton party!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fans of the hit tv show The Office will take over the Electric City once again for the Office 5k and one mile walk. \u00a0This is the fifth year for the event, which brings thousands of people to Scranton each year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The race passes through several sites featured on the show, such as Penn Paper, Cooper&#8217;s, and the Dwight mural. Some runners dress up as their favorite characters. The proceeds benefit the non-profit Valley in Motion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Office 5K and one-mile walk are on Saturday, May 2nd, at 1 p.m. You can <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theoffice5k.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:register here;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">register here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Michael Scott once said, \u201cain\u2019t no party like a Scranton party!\u201d Fans of the hit tv show&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[77950,77949,178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-173808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-aint-no-party","9":"tag-michael-scott","10":"tag-scranton","11":"tag-scranton-headlines","12":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173808","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=173808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}