{"id":278156,"date":"2026-09-03T13:12:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T13:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/278156\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T13:12:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T13:12:26","slug":"la-festa-italiana-marks-50-years-of-italian-heritage-celebration-in-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/278156\/","title":{"rendered":"La Festa Italiana marks 50 years of Italian heritage celebration in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 La Festa Italiana is celebrating 50 years! \u00a0The cherished celebration in Scranton celebrates our region\u2019s Italian heritage. More than 70 vendors will be on site, most offering a variety of Italian foods. There will be live entertainment throughout the four-day festival as well as a car show, Italian mass, and a 5K race. This year there are some special displays for La Festa\u2019s 50th anniversary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>La Festa Italiana is on Labor Day weekend, Friday, September 4\u2013 Monday, September 7, at Courthouse Square in Downtown Scranton. \u00a0Admission is free.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 La Festa Italiana is celebrating 50 years! \u00a0The cherished celebration in Scranton celebrates our region\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-278156","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\/278156","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=278156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}