{"id":108,"date":"2011-07-24T07:28:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T12:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2023-10-28T19:31:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T00:31:24","slug":"about-bethlehem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"About Bethlehem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BethSteel-sm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-109\" title=\"BethSteel-sm\" src=\"https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BethSteel-sm.png\" alt=\"a photo of bethlehem steel mill\" width=\"280\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BethSteel-sm.png 400w, https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BethSteel-sm-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BethSteel-sm-250x375.png 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>The town was founded by a group of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moravian_Church\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moravians<\/a> in early 1700&#8217;s the oldest building still remaining, Gemeinhaus, dating back to 1741, is a National Historic Landmark. \u00c2\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historicbethlehem.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Historic Bethlehem organization<\/a> is a non-profit \u00c2\u00a0associate of the Smithsonian Institute. They offer a number of historic tours and there are a number of \u00c2\u00a0Museums and Historic Sites you can visit on your own. \u00c2\u00a0The area is chockfull of covered bridges and authentic original wood built cabins. There are driving tour pamphlets available to get you out to see them.<\/p>\n<p>We took the John Adams tour that they were offering and it was very interesting. \u00c2\u00a0After that we when on the Steel Tour.<\/p>\n<p>If you come to Bethlehem you must look into these tours. \u00c2\u00a0They are well worth you time and very interesting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The town was founded by a group of Moravians in early 1700&#8217;s the oldest building still remaining, Gemeinhaus, dating back to 1741, is a National Historic Landmark. \u00c2\u00a0 The Historic Bethlehem organization is a non-profit \u00c2\u00a0associate of the Smithsonian Institute. They offer a number of historic tours and there are a number of \u00c2\u00a0Museums and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[196,42,190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-196","category-bethlehem","category-pennsylvania","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430,"href":"https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/1430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}