{"id":202786,"date":"2026-05-26T19:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202786\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T19:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:56:07","slug":"crews-prepare-for-the-philadelphia-chinese-lantern-festival-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202786\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews prepare for the Philadelphia Chinese Lantern Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Workers are putting the finishing touches on the Philadelphia Chinese Lantern Festival in Franklin Square.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A large crane was used on Tuesday to install larger-than-life elements, including the head of an enormous dragon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Organizers say the fire-breathing dragon is longer than three school buses, and weighs 6,000 pounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The festival will run from June 5th until August 16th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Workers are putting the finishing touches on the Philadelphia Chinese Lantern Festival in Franklin Square. A large crane&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[89512,20337,89513,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-202786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-enormous-dragon","tag-franklin-square","tag-lantern-festival","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202786","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=202786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}