{"id":271338,"date":"2026-08-24T17:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T17:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/271338\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T17:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T17:28:09","slug":"special-guest-greets-some-basd-students-on-their-1st-day-of-school-bethlehem-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/271338\/","title":{"rendered":"Special guest greets some BASD students on their 1st day of school | Bethlehem Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; Students in the Bethlehem Area School District are back in class.<\/p>\n<p>For these students, the first day of school started with a walk, big smiles, and a special guest.<\/p>\n<p>Students, parents, staff, and Superintendent Dr. Renato Lajara walked together Monday morning from a Southside Bethlehem neighborhood to Donegan Elementary.<\/p>\n<p>The kids were excited to start the school year and enjoyed walking alongside their new superintendent.<\/p>\n<p>When they arrived, the school was filled with energy and emotion, and the first day dropoff went smoothly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; Students in the Bethlehem Area School District are back in class. For these students, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,153,1412,28],"class_list":["post-271338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-area-school-district","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271338","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=271338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}