{"id":65679,"date":"2025-12-19T23:39:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/65679\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T23:39:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:39:32","slug":"popular-lehigh-valley-christmas-shopping-destination-closed-friday-due-to-power-outage-bethelehm-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/65679\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Lehigh Valley Christmas shopping destination closed Friday due to power outage | Bethelehm Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; During its final weekend of the season, a popular Christmas shopping destination in the Lehigh Valley has announced its temporary closure due to a power outage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Christkindlmarkt, the ArtsQuest Center, and the Bethlehem Visitors Center are all closed for the evening due to a weather-related power outage, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1BXwdZe39p\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ArtsQuest announced on a Facebook post<\/a> Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ticket holders for Friday night events, including the Rush tribute concert, will be refunded, according to ArtsQuest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Christkindlmarkt, the ArtsQuest Center and Bethlehem Visitors Center are expected to open for regularly scheduled hours tomorrow,&#8221; ArtsQuest said in a Facebook post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are currently thousands of customers in our area without power due to gusty winds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can find a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/weather\/stormcenter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">full list of cancellations<\/a>\u00a0and delays on our website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; During its final weekend of the season, a popular Christmas shopping destination in the Lehigh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[35005,153,155,154,35007,5527,35006,6560,157,13380,28],"class_list":["post-65679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-artsquest-center","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-visitors-center","tag-christmas","tag-economics-of-christmas","tag-lehigh","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-outage","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65679","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=65679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}