{"id":3517,"date":"2025-10-16T06:48:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/3517\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T06:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:48:15","slug":"watch-bear-sighting-puts-bethlehem-school-on-alert-at-dismissal-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/3517\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Bear sighting puts Bethlehem school on alert at dismissal | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8212; A wandering bear put a middle school in Bethlehem on alert.<\/p>\n<p>The Bethlehem Area School District sent a letter to parents of Nitschmann students Monday afternoon alerting them to the situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The letter urged parents to pick up children who live near the school who usually walk home.<\/p>\n<p>Videos posted to <a href=\"https:\/\/neighbors.ring.com\/n\/VkGYK5KIbV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">social media<\/a> showed the bear running down a street and through a backyard in west Bethlehem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8212; A wandering bear put a middle school in Bethlehem on alert. The Bethlehem Area School&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,1412,155,154],"class_list":["post-3517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-area-school-district","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517","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=3517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}