{"id":58769,"date":"2025-12-12T04:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/58769\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T04:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:36:09","slug":"german-students-go-to-bethlehem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/58769\/","title":{"rendered":"German students go to Bethlehem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-226331\" class=\"wp-image-226331 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/german-students-go-to-Bethlehem.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"381\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-226331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garden City students travelled to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to tour a historic German Moravian settlement, and enjoy the Christmas market.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty German students from the Garden City middle and high schools traveled by bus to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Once the group arrived in Bethlehem, they toured the Historic German Moravian Settlement founded in 1741. Led by guides dressed in clothing typically worn by Moravians in the 1700s, students visited the buildings in which the settlers lived, worked, and worshipped. At one time in the mid-18th century, 15 different languages were spoken in Bethlehem! The Moravians were quite progressive in their beliefs that all people, both men and women, should receive the same education; that women should have equal rights with men in the community; and that all people should work together for the common good regardless of race, gender, or ethnicity.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>After the tour, the students made a small stop in a charming bookstore in the town for hot cocoa, candies and unique gifts.\u00a0 In the afternoon, students spent some time enjoying the Christkindlmarkt, an outdoor German Christmas market housed in several heated tents where traditional German food, beverages and holiday crafts from the US and Germany are sold. Live music was provided by local vocal and instrumental groups. \u00a0A great time was had by all!\u00a0 The Bethlehem trip is a favorite outing for German students and their parents every December.\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garden City students travelled to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to tour a historic German Moravian settlement, and enjoy the Christmas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-58769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58769","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=58769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}