{"id":131079,"date":"2026-03-06T07:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131079\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T07:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:47:09","slug":"santander-arena-prepares-for-professional-bull-riding-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131079\/","title":{"rendered":"Santander Arena prepares for professional bull riding | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2013 The Santander Area is getting reading for professional bull riding.<\/p>\n<p>The PBR tour comes to Reading this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday morning, crews started putting 750 tons of dirt in place.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of both nights, organizers say 35 top riders will appear in two full rounds, taking on some of the sport\u2019s toughest bulls.<\/p>\n<p>The layer of dirt will be about 8 inches thick. It needs to be soft on top and hard on the bottom.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.santander-arena.com\/events\/detail\/professional-bull-riding-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The shows<\/a> are Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 The Santander Area is getting reading for professional bull riding. The PBR tour comes to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-131079","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\/131079","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=131079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}