{"id":123611,"date":"2026-02-26T00:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/123611\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T00:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:59:08","slug":"slapshot-visits-reading-hospital-to-promote-breast-cancer-awareness-hockey-game-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/123611\/","title":{"rendered":"Slapshot visits Reading Hospital to promote breast cancer awareness hockey game | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; The Reading Royals mascot &#8220;Slapshot&#8221; is making the rounds at Reading Hospital in West Reading.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s not diagnosing anything, just spreading smiles ahead of this Saturday&#8217;s &#8220;Pink in the Rink&#8221; game.<\/p>\n<p>He wore a special jersey and toured the Mobile Mammography Coach to raise awareness about the importance of mammograms.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Pink in the Rink&#8221; game shines a light on breast cancer services in Berks County.<\/p>\n<p>The first 1,500 fans will get a free Snuggie.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the Pink in the Rink game or to purchase tickets, visit the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/royalshockey.com\/games\/2026\/02\/28\/pink-in-the-rink-women-in-sports-night\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reading Royals website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; The Reading Royals mascot &#8220;Slapshot&#8221; is making the rounds at Reading Hospital in West Reading.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,58063,58065,58062,128,130,129,2791,23405,58061,58064],"class_list":{"0":"post-123611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-mammograms","10":"tag-mobile-mammography-coach","11":"tag-pink-in-the-rink","12":"tag-reading-city","13":"tag-reading-city-headlines","14":"tag-reading-city-news","15":"tag-reading-hospital","16":"tag-reading-royals","17":"tag-slapshot","18":"tag-snuggie"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123611","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=123611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}