{"id":52924,"date":"2025-12-05T10:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/52924\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T10:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:49:08","slug":"fans-to-gather-at-steelstacks-in-bethlehem-for-watch-party-as-fifa-world-cup-draw-gets-underway-bethelehm-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/52924\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans to gather at SteelStacks in Bethlehem for watch party, as FIFA World Cup draw gets underway | Bethelehm Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; Sports fans from all over the world are focusing on the Kennedy Center Friday for the FIFA World Cup draw.<\/p>\n<p>Millions will be watching, and some in the Lehigh Valley will gather at the SteelStacks in Bethlehem for a watch party.<\/p>\n<p>48 teams will be placed into 12 groups for the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Co-hosts Mexico, Canada, and the United States have already been assigned to groups, but the competition still has to be named.<\/p>\n<p>The drawing is set to begin at noon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; Sports fans from all over the world are focusing on the Kennedy Center Friday for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,153,2013,29871,157,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-52924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-bethlehem","12":"tag-fifa-world-cup","13":"tag-kennedy-center","14":"tag-lehigh-valley","15":"tag-pennsylvania"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52924","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=52924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}