{"id":121258,"date":"2026-02-23T14:53:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/121258\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T14:53:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:53:06","slug":"mayor-joi-washington-blazing-a-trail-in-media-pennsylvania-we-cant-succumb-to-negativity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/121258\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Joi Washington Blazing A Trail In Media, Pennsylvania: &#8220;We Can&#8217;t Succumb To Negativity&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 23, 2026<\/p>\n<p>A Philadelphia native is making history in the suburbs. After serving four years on Borough Council, Joi Washington has become the first Black person and the first woman elected mayor of Media, Delaware County.<\/p>\n<p>Washington was sworn in on Jan. 5 after being elected in November. On Feb. 11, she celebrated one of her first official events as mayor: a ribbon cutting at Jackson St. Steaks, a new cheesesteak restaurant in the borough.<\/p>\n<p>She said she is now focused on the priorities that shaped her campaign, including pedestrian safety, housing affordability and preserving Media&#8217;s close-knit character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"February 23, 2026 A Philadelphia native is making history in the suburbs. After serving four years on Borough&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-121258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","10":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121258","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=121258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}