{"id":307598,"date":"2026-10-16T01:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T01:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307598\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T01:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T01:16:16","slug":"carbondale-legion-post-leader-honored-as-district-11-commander-of-the-year-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307598\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbondale Legion post leader honored as District 11 Commander of the Year \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During this year\u2019s Pioneer Nights parade, U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan\u2019s director of outreach, Leo Russo, saw the American Legion float announcing Carbondale\u2019s American Legion Post 221 commander, Joseph Dick, being recognized as the Commander of the Year for District 11. After a conversation, he promised and delivered a certificate of recognition from Bresnahan\u2019s office, which was presented during a meeting in September. From left: Gina Iacovazzi, Auxiliary Unit 221 president, and Dick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During this year\u2019s Pioneer Nights parade, U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan\u2019s director of outreach, Leo Russo, saw the American&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[524,201,182,28,727,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-307598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-community","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-photos-and-videos","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307598","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=307598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}