{"id":246922,"date":"2026-07-18T23:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T23:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246922\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T23:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T23:40:07","slug":"allentown-celebrates-colombias-independence-day-despite-rain-during-flag-raising-event-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246922\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown celebrates Colombia’s Independence Day despite rain during flag-raising event | State"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — The weather put a damper on a lot of events earlier — but they were able to adapt in Allentown!<\/p>\n

Saturday was the flag raising to mark Colombia’s Independence Day!<\/p>\n

Allentown’s mayor and event organizers gave speeches inside City Hall, followed by music and dancing.<\/p>\n

And then — not even the rain could stop them from heading outside to officially raise the flag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. — The weather put a damper on a lot of events earlier — but they were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,28],"class_list":["post-246922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246922","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=246922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}