{"id":176862,"date":"2026-04-26T23:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176862\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T23:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:04:09","slug":"arena-football-returns-to-reading-after-more-than-a-decade-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176862\/","title":{"rendered":"Arena football returns to Reading after more than a decade | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; After more than a decade, arena football returned to downtown Reading Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania Benjamins hosted the Utah Great 8&#8217;s at Santander Arena.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"7xxx fornario arena football back in reading vd berks_03105.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69ee8432c43ba.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The team is part of the International Arena League, which is based in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; After more than a decade, arena football returned to downtown Reading Sunday. The Pennsylvania Benjamins&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[65518,61923,128,130,129,79080],"class_list":["post-176862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-arena-football","tag-pennsylvania-benjamins","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-utah-great-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176862","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=176862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}