{"id":75461,"date":"2026-01-01T09:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T09:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75461\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T09:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T09:53:07","slug":"allentown-rings-in-new-years-2026-with-puck-drop-drone-show-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75461\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown rings in New Year&#8217;s 2026 with puck drop, drone show: Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allentown rang in 2026 on New Year\u2019s Eve with the drop of a giant hockey puck in Center Square.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the fourth year the new year was marked with the puck drop, in partnership with the Lehigh Valley Phantoms.\u00a0The puck, which is nearly 1,000 pounds, is believed to be the largest in the world, according to the Phantoms.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the puck drop was accompanied by a drone light show.<\/p>\n<p>Watch video below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Allentown rang in 2026 on New Year\u2019s Eve with the drop of a giant hockey puck in Center&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,182,139,28,727,289,432],"class_list":["post-75461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-photos-and-videos","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75461","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=75461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}