{"id":160426,"date":"2026-04-08T13:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160426\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:26:08","slug":"readings-dog-park-temporarily-closed-for-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160426\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading&#8217;s dog park temporarily closed for upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caramel and Friends Dog Park at Schlegel Park will be temporarily closed beginning today for improvements at the site.<\/p>\n<p>The park is expected to reopen April 14.<\/p>\n<p>City officials said the temporary closure is necessary so workers can install dog agility ramps and repair the grass. Installation of the ramps requires placing concrete pads for safety and durability.<\/p>\n<p>This work is being completed by the city\u2019s public works department in partnership with the Reading Conservation Corps.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caramel and Friends Dog Park at Schlegel Park will be temporarily closed beginning today for improvements at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,857,182,139,28,3138,128,130,129,289,706],"class_list":["post-160426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-essential-reading","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pets-and-animals","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160426","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=160426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}