{"id":289911,"date":"2026-09-19T22:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T22:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/289911\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T22:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T22:22:22","slug":"the-great-allentown-fair-lehigh-valley-press-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/289911\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Allentown Fair \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published September 16. 2026 02:35PM<\/p>\n<p>PRESS PHOTOS BY SAMANTHA ANDERSONBlair Hower, of Northampton, wins Best of Show for this impressive vegetable display at The Great Allentown Fair, held Sept. 2-7 at the Allentown Fairgrounds. The theme, in celebration of the country\u2019s 250th birthday, was \u201cSomething Old, Something New, Forever Red, White and Blue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sophia Hutchens, of Northampton, is awarded first place for her potato person creation in the under age 19 category.<\/p>\n<p>A Holland Lop buck, submitted by John Plokhooy, of Danielsville, enjoys a snack.<\/p>\n<p>A relaxing Holland Lop doe, submitted by Plokhooy, stretches out and relaxes.<\/p>\n<p>Hower wins a third-place ribbon for a basil plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published September 16. 2026 02:35PM PRESS PHOTOS BY SAMANTHA ANDERSONBlair Hower, of Northampton, wins Best of Show for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-289911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289911","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=289911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}