{"id":223458,"date":"2026-06-19T21:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/223458\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T21:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:52:08","slug":"juneteenth-celebrations-across-lehigh-valley-honor-the-history-and-significance-of-the-observance-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/223458\/","title":{"rendered":"Juneteenth celebrations across Lehigh Valley honor the history and significance of the observance | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa. &#8212; Friday is Juneteenth, and celebrations are taking place across our region.<\/p>\n<p>In Allentown, a flag-raising ceremony was held in front of City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Officials, including Mayor Matt Tuerk, spoke.<\/p>\n<p>And in Easton, there was a celebration for the kids, including educational presentations, games, crafts, and music.<\/p>\n<p>Juneteenth is observed every year on June 19th to celebrate the effective end of slavery in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa. &#8212; Friday is Juneteenth, and celebrations are taking place across our region. In Allentown, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232,6290],"class_list":["post-223458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area","tag-easton-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223458","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=223458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}