{"id":66542,"date":"2025-12-21T04:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T04:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/66542\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T04:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T04:41:06","slug":"santa-brings-holiday-joy-to-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/66542\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa brings holiday joy to Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Santa, escorted by fire and police, delighted Scranton families as he went to 11 different locations throughout Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 On Saturday, escorted by the fire department and state police, Santa made his way through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Scranton<\/a> to greet families and hand out gifts a couple of days early, including snacks and stuffed toys.<\/p>\n<p>4-year-old Karter Newsome was asked what he was looking forward to this Christmas and was able to sum it up in one word: &#8220;Toys!&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In his fifth year of visiting, Santa visited 11 locations in Scranton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Santa, escorted by fire and police, delighted Scranton families as he went to 11 different locations throughout Scranton.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-66542","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\/66542","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=66542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}