{"id":123577,"date":"2026-02-26T00:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/123577\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T00:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:23:07","slug":"hot-dog-eating-champion-coming-to-firstenergy-stadium-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/123577\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot dog eating champion coming to FirstEnergy Stadium | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; The one and only Joey Chestnut is coming to Baseballtown.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s set to appear at FirstEnergy Stadium on Saturday, May 30th.<\/p>\n<p>Chestnut is a 17-time hot dog eating champion known for his strong showings in the Nathan&#8217;s Hot Dog Eating Contest.<\/p>\n<p>His visit will include a pre-game eating challenge featuring the R-Phils&#8217; cheeseburger dogs.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be VIP meet and greet, tickets and a limited-edition Joey Chestnut bobblehead.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the event, visit the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.milb.com\/reading\/news\/pro-eating-champion-joey-chestnut-coming-to-baseballtown-on-may-30\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MILB website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; The one and only Joey Chestnut is coming to Baseballtown. He&#8217;s set to appear at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[58040,24584,58039,58038,58041,128,130,129,44158],"class_list":["post-123577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-cheeseburger-dogs","tag-firstenergy-stadium","tag-hot-dog-eating-contest","tag-joey-chestnut","tag-nathan","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-fightin-phils"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123577","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=123577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}