{"id":130092,"date":"2026-03-05T06:13:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T06:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/130092\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T06:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T06:13:16","slug":"united-way-gets-children-excited-for-read-across-america-week-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/130092\/","title":{"rendered":"United Way gets children excited for &#8216;Read Across America Week&#8217; | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2013 The United Way of Berks County is helping children develop a love for books during &#8220;Read Across America Week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Cat in the Hat&#8221; and &#8220;Thing One&#8221; and &#8220;Thing Two&#8221; read to kids at the Patton Avenue Learning Center in Oakbrook on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>It was one four events aimed at getting kids in Berks County excited about reading.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRead Across America&#8221; events take place around March 2, which is Dr. Seuss&#8217;s birthday.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to promote literacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 The United Way of Berks County is helping children develop a love for books during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-130092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","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\/130092","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=130092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}