{"id":235811,"date":"2026-07-05T02:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T02:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235811\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T02:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T02:59:09","slug":"the-founding-of-a-nation-in-our-own-backyard-69news-at-sunrise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235811\/","title":{"rendered":"The founding of a nation in our own backyard | 69News at Sunrise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The founding of the nation may have been first announced about 45 miles south of here. What preceded it, fueled it, and helped it survive was centered very much in our region.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercermuseum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mercer Museum<\/a> Exhibit Specialist, archeologist, and the real life Indiana Jones Clint Flack joins Sunrise with a look at the history that started the revolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The founding of the nation may have been first announced about 45 miles south of here. What preceded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,28,3705],"class_list":["post-235811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-sunrise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235811","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=235811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}