{"id":187855,"date":"2026-05-09T06:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T06:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187855\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T06:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T06:39:07","slug":"friendly-sons-scholarships-awarded-the-sunday-dispatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187855\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendly Sons scholarships awarded | The Sunday Dispatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greater Pittston Friendly Sons of St. Patrick presented scholarships to graduates of Wyoming Area and Pittston Area for 2026 during a dinner at Fox Hill Country Club on Thursday, May 7. Emma Kratz of Wyoming Area and Callie Shannon of Pittston Area were this year\u2019s recipients. Shown in the photo are past presidents of the Friendly Sons with Kratz and Shannon. From left, first row: Emma Kratz and Callie Shannon. Second row: Ed Hart, Kevin O\u2019Brien Sr., Mike McFarland, John Gilligan, Bill Williams, James Rooney, J.J. McFarland, Kevin O\u2019Brien Jr., Wyoming Area scholarship winner Emma Kratz, and Pittston Area scholarship winner Callie Shannon.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Callaio | For Sunday Dispatch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Greater Pittston Friendly Sons of St. Patrick presented scholarships to graduates of Wyoming Area and Pittston Area&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-187855","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\/187855","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=187855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}