{"id":82877,"date":"2026-01-10T00:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/82877\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T00:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:16:10","slug":"parkland-community-library-hosts-new-years-eve-eve-story-time-for-kids-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/82877\/","title":{"rendered":"Parkland Community Library hosts New Year\u2019s Eve Eve story time for kids \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published January 09. 2026 05:36PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Parkland Community Library, 4422 Walbert Avenue, celebrated the coming new year a day early at the New Year\u2019s Eve Eve Celebration!<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Children under five, spent a half hour from 2-2:30 p.m. filled with stories, music, dancing, and a festive craft to welcome 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Families and children enjoyed the excitement of the countdown without staying up past bedtime!<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">This was a perfect way to wrap up the year with joy, creativity, and community fun.<\/p>\n<p>Taeva Cessanek looked at the activity in the comfort of her mother\u2019s arm.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby Hahn beams with joy while taking part in a lively music-and-movement activity.<\/p>\n<p>With a big smile and bright scarves in hand, Charlie Madigan enjoys a fun-filled group activity.<\/p>\n<p>Libby Ortiz, youth services coordinator reads \u201cHappy New Year Spot\u201d and \u201cNight before New Year\u2019s.\u201dStory and additional photos appear on Page A5.PRESS PHOTO BY MICHAEL HIRSCH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published January 09. 2026 05:36PM Parkland Community Library, 4422 Walbert Avenue, celebrated the coming new year a day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-82877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82877","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=82877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}