{"id":180972,"date":"2026-05-01T06:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T06:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/180972\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T06:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T06:57:08","slug":"police-man-shot-in-leg-on-reading-street-homepage-top-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/180972\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Man shot in leg on Reading street | Homepage Top Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Police say a man was shot in the leg in Reading Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>It happened around 1:30 p.m. in the 1200 block of Douglass Street.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the victim is expected to survive.<\/p>\n<p>There is no word at this time on any arrests or the circumstances that led up to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; Police say a man was shot in the leg in Reading Thursday afternoon. It happened&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,279,213],"class_list":["post-180972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-berks","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180972","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=180972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}