{"id":280826,"date":"2026-09-07T12:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280826\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T12:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:22:10","slug":"wiener-dogs-race-for-glory-at-sbc-oktoberfest-in-pittston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280826\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiener dogs race for glory at SBC Oktoberfest in Pittston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the pups have trained for the race while others were natural-born athletes.<\/p>\n<p>PITTSTON, Pa. \u2014 Weiner dogs took to the track this evening at Susquehanna Brewing Company in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/luzerne-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Pittston<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fierce competitors lined up as part of SBC Oktoberfest happening along Main Street.<\/p>\n<p>While some dogs have been training, organizers say others are natural athletes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re hoping we&#8217;re gonna have to do a little bit of training next year, I think. We might have we might even get May to do next year, but Winnie were hoping for gold,&#8221; said Michael Berlew.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the highly anticipated race, the event featured live music, beer, and lots of entertainment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some of the pups have trained for the race while others were natural-born athletes. PITTSTON, Pa. \u2014 Weiner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-280826","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\/280826","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=280826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}