{"id":257632,"date":"2026-08-02T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/257632\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T11:00:09","slug":"fourth-annual-latino-festival-celebrates-rich-heritage-in-scrantons-nay-aug-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/257632\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth annual Latino Festival celebrates rich heritage in Scranton&#8217;s Nay Aug Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Latino Festival brought together families to celebrate and showcase Latino heritage with delicious food, performances, and activities for all ages.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 Nay Aug Park in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\u00a0Scranton<\/a> came alive on Saturday with traditions from Latin American countries as part of the fourth annual Latino Festival.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration brings together families, friends, and neighbors for a vibrant showcase of Latino heritage.<\/p>\n<p>There was plenty of delicious food, performances, and activities for all ages.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say it&#8217;s all about highlighting the diversity within the Hispanic culture, especially given the current political climate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the current immigration status, I think it&#8217;s more important than ever to stand united and show our Latino community that we are here for them. They are valued, they are part of our community, and we stand with them,&#8221; said Elizabeth Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p>Community resources were also available at the fourth annual Latino Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Latino Festival brought together families to celebrate and showcase Latino heritage with delicious food, performances, and activities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-257632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257632","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=257632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}