{"id":105979,"date":"2026-02-05T14:15:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/105979\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:15:06","slug":"reading-borough-council-considering-city-of-culture-bid-for-2029","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/105979\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Borough Council considering City of Culture bid for 2029"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite previously failing to get city status, the council said large towns like Reading are being &#8220;actively encouraged&#8221; to bid for City of Culture status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As well as boosting pride and confidence in Reading, a successful bid would attract visitors and investment and further strengthen the local economy by supporting jobs in culture, hospitality and the wider creative industries,&#8221; Terry added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If successful, Reading could receive up to \u00a310m and follow previous winners Derry, Hull, Coventry and Bradford, which held the title in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite previously failing to get city status, the council said large towns like Reading are being &#8220;actively encouraged&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-105979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105979","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=105979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}