{"id":176119,"date":"2026-04-25T23:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176119\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T23:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:07:06","slug":"8th-annual-pretzel-and-beer-festival-draw-crowds-in-west-reading-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176119\/","title":{"rendered":"8th annual Pretzel and Beer Festival draw crowds in West Reading | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST READING, Pa. &#8211; The dreary day didn&#8217;t keep people from getting their hands on warm, chewy pretzel dough in Berks County.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday was the 8th annual Pretzel and Beer Festival in West Reading.<\/p>\n<p>Several blocks of Penn Avenue were filled with people indulging in different kinds of pretzels and adult beverages.<\/p>\n<p>There was also live music.<\/p>\n<p>The event wrapped up an hour ago.<\/p>\n<p>It was held one day before National Pretzel Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST READING, Pa. &#8211; The dreary day didn&#8217;t keep people from getting their hands on warm, chewy pretzel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-176119","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\/176119","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=176119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}