{"id":60467,"date":"2025-12-14T03:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T03:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/60467\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T03:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T03:25:07","slug":"veterans-in-scranton-honored-as-part-of-wreaths-across-america-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/60467\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans in Scranton honored as part of Wreaths Across America Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 600 wreaths were laid across the graves of veterans in Lackawanna County.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 On Saturday, volunteers laid hundreds of wreaths to honor veterans in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Scranton<\/a> as part of Wreaths Across America Day.<\/p>\n<p>This is the seventh year Saint Stanislaus Cathedral, along Kane Street, participated.<\/p>\n<p>A wreath-laying ceremony acknowledged all branches of the military before volunteers spread out to place more than 600 wreaths on the graves of veterans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My dad&#8217;s a veteran, and to see everybody in all walks of life come here to support us, it&#8217;s really heartwarming,&#8221; said Maria Hughes, of the St. Stanislaus Cathedral Parish Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers tell us this was the first year they were able to place a wreath on each veteran&#8217;s grave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 600 wreaths were laid across the graves of veterans in Lackawanna County. SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 On&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-60467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60467","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=60467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}