{"id":69852,"date":"2025-12-24T21:10:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/69852\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T21:10:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:10:39","slug":"sinkhole-opens-in-allentown-street-drivers-asked-to-avoid-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/69852\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinkhole opens in Allentown street, drivers asked to avoid area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allentown police are asking residents to stay away from a city street Wednesday afternoon after a sinkhole opened.<\/p>\n<p>City police said just before 1 p.m. that the sinkhole opened in the 800 block of North Muhlenberg Street. The road is closed between Washington Street and Greenleaf Street.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the closure will be for an extended period.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Allentown police are asking residents to stay away from a city street Wednesday afternoon after a sinkhole opened.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,153,155,154,433,182,139,28,432],"class_list":["post-69852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-allentown","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69852","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=69852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}