{"id":212829,"date":"2026-06-07T02:58:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T02:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/212829\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T02:58:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T02:58:54","slug":"portuguese-heritage-celebrated-in-bethlehem-bethlehem-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/212829\/","title":{"rendered":"Portuguese heritage celebrated in Bethlehem | Bethlehem Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2013 Community members celebrated Portuguese food, art and music in Bethlehem on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The community came out for the 47th Annual Portuguese Heritage Day Festival outside the Portuguese American Club of Bethlehem on Brodhead Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Festival-goers ate authentic cuisine while walking under a canopy of floating umbrellas.<\/p>\n<p>Others took part in traditional dancing to Portuguese songs performed live.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So we try to do this, &#8217;cause some of our kids, they don&#8217;t know what Portugal is,\u201d said Joe Tavares, president, Portuguese American Club. \u201cThey were raised there, born here, so we try to bring a little bit of the culture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The event was put on by the Portuguese American Club and the Portuguese Heritage Day Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2013 Community members celebrated Portuguese food, art and music in Bethlehem on Saturday. The community came&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,1391],"class_list":["post-212829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212829","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=212829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}