{"id":66394,"date":"2025-12-20T22:43:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T22:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/66394\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T22:43:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T22:43:25","slug":"santa-tours-the-electric-city-for-annual-sidewalk-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/66394\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa tours the Electric City for annual Sidewalk Santa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Santa didn\u2019t need reindeer to get around Scranton this year, just a little help from local first responders.<\/p>\n<p>For its annual tradition, the <a href=\"https:\/\/scrantonpa.gov\/your-government\/sfd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scranton Fire Department<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/psp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pennsylvania State Police<\/a> escorted Santa to 11 different locations as part of their 2025 Sidewalk Santa event.<\/p>\n<p>Families who tracked Santa\u2019s Electric City route were treated to special bags filled with goodies.<\/p>\n<p>The Sidewalk Santa tour helped kick off Christmas a little early, with the tour starting at 11 a.m. and wrapping up with its final stop at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Santa was also transported on his trolley from the Gilbride Limousine.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Sidewalk Santa, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100088749373907\/posts\/-announcing-the-2025-sidewalk-santa-routewere-excited-to-share-this-years-sidewa\/871926529108985\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Santa didn\u2019t need reindeer to get around Scranton this year, just a little&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-66394","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\/66394","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=66394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}