{"id":36237,"date":"2025-11-17T03:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T03:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/36237\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T03:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T03:47:07","slug":"festive-spirit-kicks-off-in-bethlehem-with-successful-first-weekend-at-christkindlmarkt-bethelehm-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/36237\/","title":{"rendered":"Festive spirit kicks off in Bethlehem with successful first weekend at Christkindlmarkt | Bethelehm Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; Christkindlmarkt is wrapping up their first full weekend of the holiday season!<\/p>\n<p>The market officially opened up on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>There are more than 170 vendors &#8212; and some brand new experiences this year!<\/p>\n<p>Visitors can check out the brand new Winter Wonderland Experience &#8212; which features St Nick and a Hot Glass experience.<\/p>\n<p>Officials with Christkindlmarkt say it&#8217;s been a great weekend to kickstart the festive spirit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen many happy customers, happy shoppers, everybody trying to get into the christmas spirit a little bit early, but it&#8217;s been a great weekend for all involved,&#8221; said Emily Kocis, Director of IT and Juried Exhibitors\/Beverage Operations.<\/p>\n<p>Christkindlmarkt is open every weekend through December 21st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; Christkindlmarkt is wrapping up their first full weekend of the holiday season! The market officially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,1391],"class_list":["post-36237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36237","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=36237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}