{"id":168342,"date":"2026-04-17T07:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168342\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T07:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:04:14","slug":"philadelphia-parks-and-recreation-celebrates-the-renovation-of-charles-baker-recreation-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168342\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Parks and Recreation celebrates the renovation of Charles Baker Recreation Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">City leaders celebrated the completion of a renovation project in the Overbrook section of Philadelphia on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Parks and Recreation hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the upgraded Baker Recreation Center and Playground along Lansdowne Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The $2.17 million project, supported by Councilmember Curtis Jones Jr., includes a new multipurpose room, secure entrance, a restored Charles Baker mural, and new playground equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City leaders celebrated the completion of a renovation project in the Overbrook section of Philadelphia on Thursday. Parks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[75794,75795,75797,1299,69,71,70,45673,75796],"class_list":{"0":"post-168342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-baker-recreation-center","9":"tag-charles-baker","10":"tag-multipurpose-room","11":"tag-parks-and-recreation","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","14":"tag-philadelphia-news","15":"tag-renovation-project","16":"tag-ribbon-cutting-ceremony"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168342","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=168342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}