{"id":42218,"date":"2025-11-23T07:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T07:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/42218\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T07:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T07:57:10","slug":"santa-comes-to-town-for-annual-parade-in-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/42218\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa comes to town for annual parade in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 On Saturday, the Santa Parade drew a big crowd to downtown Scranton. It was filled with music, floats, and Santa himself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Nearly 1,500 marchers and more than 100 vehicles filled city streets to drum up crowd excitement for the Christmas season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Families flocked to the center city to take in the fun. Some checked out the Santa Parade for the first time, while others made it an annual tradition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI just recently moved to Scranton, but yeah, this is like my second year doing it, and we\u2019re enjoying it. We love it. This is his first time,\u201d Scranton resident Brea Hampton stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/three-tree-luzerne-county-courthouse-222231851.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Three tree is up in the Luzerne County Courthouse;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Three tree is up in the Luzerne County Courthouse <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cFirst time?\u201d 28\/22 News Reporter John Lopez asked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cYeah,\u201d Hampton replies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIt\u2019s something that me and my family take very deeply, like, in our traditions, and it\u2019s always nice to get together with family, spend time, and just have fun,\u201d Jamaal Scotton from Olyphant said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fun is certainly something there was no shortage of at the 31st Santa Parade in Scranton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 On Saturday, the Santa Parade drew a big crowd to downtown Scranton. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[10318,25263,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-42218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-city-streets","tag-santa-parade","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42218","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=42218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}