{"id":309646,"date":"2026-10-19T04:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T04:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/309646\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T04:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T04:56:08","slug":"taking-some-of-the-scariness-out-of-halloween-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/309646\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking some of the scariness out of Halloween shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Affordable Pennsylvania and the NEPA Youth Shelter took some of the fright out of Halloween costs last week, giving out 100 free Halloween costumes to local kids, teens and their families. Families were invited to stop, pick out a costume and get into the Halloween spirit \u2014 without breaking the bank.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" style=\"text-align: center;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;font-size: 16px\" alt=\"Andy Granick, regional organizer for Affordable Pennsylvania, and John Rosengrant, executive director for the NEPA Youth Shelter, pose for a photograph in front of the some of the donated costumes at the NEPA Youth Shelter in Scranton Thursday, October 15, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\" width=\"2356\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/STT-L-COSTUMES-1016-01.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1948705\" \/>Andy Granick, regional organizer for Affordable Pennsylvania, and John Rosengrant, executive director for the NEPA Youth Shelter, pose for a photograph in front of the some of the donated costumes at the NEPA Youth Shelter in Scranton Thursday, October 15, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Affordable Pennsylvania and the NEPA Youth Shelter took some of the fright out of Halloween costs last week,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[182,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-309646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-local-news","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309646","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=309646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}