{"id":182452,"date":"2026-05-02T23:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T23:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/182452\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T23:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T23:52:10","slug":"west-readings-inaugural-porchfest-delights-community-with-live-music-on-front-porches-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/182452\/","title":{"rendered":"West Reading&#8217;s inaugural Porchfest delights community with live music on front porches | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST READING, Pa. &#8211; Live music rang through the streets of West Reading on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The borough held its first-ever Porchfest.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of musicians performed live on 13 front porches in the neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors could walk along the streets and stop and listen to all the performances.<\/p>\n<p>The event was created as a way to bring people in the community together.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was amazing just to see the community involving themselves with us. I don&#8217;t know, there&#8217;s just something so grassroots wholesome about it,&#8221; said Katherine Chen and Kristopher Morganti, of Safe to Stay.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Organizers are hoping to make it an annual thing for years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST READING, Pa. &#8211; Live music rang through the streets of West Reading on Saturday. The borough held&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-182452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","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\/182452","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=182452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}