{"id":196501,"date":"2026-05-19T09:39:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/196501\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T09:39:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:39:41","slug":"dominican-community-celebrates-independence-day-in-allentown-with-flag-raising-ceremony-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/196501\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican community celebrates Independence Day in Allentown with flag-raising ceremony | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; The Dominican community in Allentown gathered to celebrate the Dominican Republic&#8217;s Independence Day.<\/p>\n<p>The Dominican Flag was raised at City Hall on Sunday afternoon, marking the countries declaration of independence from Haiti in 1844.<\/p>\n<p>This event also celebrates the Dominican population in Allentown.<\/p>\n<p>According to the 2020 census, more than half the city identifies as Latino or Hispanic, with around 18,000 residents being of Dominican descent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; The Dominican community in Allentown gathered to celebrate the Dominican Republic&#8217;s Independence Day. The Dominican&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,8003,6561,87302,14714,58220,87300,87301,87303,28],"class_list":["post-196501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-city-hall","tag-culture-of-allentown","tag-fiestas-patrias","tag-haiti","tag-independence-day","tag-independence-day-of-cambodia","tag-independence-day-of-ukraine","tag-outline-of-the-dominican-republic","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196501","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=196501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}