{"id":141116,"date":"2026-03-17T22:45:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/141116\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T22:45:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:45:43","slug":"giant-donates-200-hams-to-helping-harvest-food-bank-in-reading-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/141116\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant donates 200 hams to Helping Harvest Food Bank in Reading | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SPRING TWP., Pa. &#8211; Giant grocery store employees are giving a helping hand to the Helping Harvest Food Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Giant donated 200 hams to the food bank in Spring Township Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Employees stuck around to help organize and restock the shelves.<\/p>\n<p>All told, Giant is donating 3,000 hams to food banks this spring.<\/p>\n<p>Helping Harvest distributed more than 11 million pounds of food last year to folks in Berks and Schuylkill counties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPRING TWP., Pa. &#8211; Giant grocery store employees are giving a helping hand to the Helping Harvest Food&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,5705,2347,5706,64631,64633,64632,128,130,129,231,3198,15881],"class_list":["post-141116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-charity","tag-community-support","tag-food-bank","tag-giant-grocery-store","tag-ham-donation","tag-helping-harvest-food-bank","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-schuylkill-county","tag-spring-township","tag-volunteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141116","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=141116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}