{"id":256726,"date":"2026-07-31T22:16:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T22:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256726\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T22:16:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T22:16:41","slug":"allentown-hosts-dci-eastern-classic-drum-corps-competition-this-weekend-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256726\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown hosts DCI Eastern Classic Drum corps competition this weekend | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8212; The 2026 DCI Eastern Classic in Allentown\u00a0is taking place at J-Birney Crum Stadium Friday night and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Reading Buccaneers are slated to perform the field at 7:27 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re among the nearly two-dozen drum corps competing these two days.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all leading up to the DCI World Championships in Indiana next weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8212; The 2026 DCI Eastern Classic in Allentown\u00a0is taking place at J-Birney Crum Stadium Friday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232],"class_list":["post-256726","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\/256726","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=256726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}