{"id":123855,"date":"2026-02-26T07:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/123855\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T07:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:02:07","slug":"star-city-boxing-awarded-50k-grant-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/123855\/","title":{"rendered":"Star City Boxing awarded $50K grant | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2013 A local boxing gym is getting a big boost from the state.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, Democratic state Rep. Johanny Cepeda-Freytiz presented Star City Boxing with a check for $50,000.<\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit on Centre Avenue in Reading trains athletes of all skill levels and gives youth the chance to build healthy habits while building confidence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This gym is not only about sparring&#8230; teaching them about discipline,\u201d Cepeda-Freytiz, who represents Berks County, said.<\/p>\n<p>The gym says the grant money will help it buy new equipment, enter tournaments, and building on the programs it already offers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 A local boxing gym is getting a big boost from the state. Wednesday, Democratic state&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-123855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123855","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=123855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}