{"id":256653,"date":"2026-07-31T20:50:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256653\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T20:50:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:50:43","slug":"allentowns-roosevelt-park-pool-house-demolition-paves-way-for-fun-water-play-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256653\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown&#8217;s Roosevelt Park pool house demolition paves way for fun water play | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8212; The city of Allentown is demolishing a pool house in order to make room for a new way to stay cool next summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The city posted on Facebook Friday about the demolition of the pool house at Roosevelt Park.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the\u00a0City of Allentown Parks &amp; Recreation,\u00a0the existing pool house building by the tennis courts was in poor condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A new spray pad is being installed in place of the structure to help families beat the heat in time for next summer, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8212; The city of Allentown is demolishing a pool house in order to make room for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232],"class_list":["post-256653","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256653","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=256653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}