{"id":272890,"date":"2026-08-26T23:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T23:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272890\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T23:40:12","slug":"america250pa-bell-unveiled-in-scranton-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272890\/","title":{"rendered":"America250PA bell unveiled in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">America&#8217;s 250th birthday may have passed, but Lackawanna County is still celebrating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials unveiled Lackawanna County&#8217;s Bells Across PA piece Wednesday morning along North Washington Avenue in Scranton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Local artist Austin Burke painted the bell, featuring iconic landmarks including Steamtown, PNC Field, the iron furnaces and a coal mine breaker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The bell sits in front of the Lackawanna County Courthouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Burke was honored for capturing the area&#8217;s rich history and its impact on America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s 250th birthday may have passed, but Lackawanna County is still celebrating. Officials unveiled Lackawanna County&#8217;s Bells Across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[73033,201,571,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-272890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-austin-burke","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-lackawanna-county-courthouse","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272890","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=272890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}