{"id":155101,"date":"2026-04-02T05:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155101\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T05:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:42:17","slug":"boots-vs-badges-reading-firefighters-police-face-off-to-support-youth-sports-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155101\/","title":{"rendered":"Boots vs. badges: Reading firefighters, police face off to support youth sports | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2013 Reading firefighters and police officers faced off for a good cause Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth annual \u201cBoots vs. Badges\u201d game was held at the 3rd and Spruce Recreation Center.<\/p>\n<p>First responders played alongside kids in the youth sports programs.<\/p>\n<p>Reading\u2019s new fire chief took time out of his first day on the job to coach his team.<\/p>\n<p>Money raised from the event will go towards the youth sports programs.<\/p>\n<p>The final score was 58-54, with Team Badges declaring victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 Reading firefighters and police officers faced off for a good cause Wednesday night. The fourth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[70326,813,1385,128,130,129,62784,32064],"class_list":["post-155101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-boots-vs-badges","tag-firefighters","tag-police-officers","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-pennsylvania","tag-youth-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155101","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=155101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}