{"id":184791,"date":"2026-05-05T23:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T23:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184791\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T23:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T23:00:28","slug":"west-reading-armed-forces-day-parade-to-feature-shorter-route-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184791\/","title":{"rendered":"West Reading Armed Forces Day Parade to feature shorter route | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST READING, Pa. &#8211; This year&#8217;s Armed Forces Day Parade in West Reading will have a shorter route.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the parade will travel Penn Avenue from 8th Avenue to 4th Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say the mantra for this year is &#8220;pack the avenue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re hoping the shorter route brings people together and turns that stretch of Penn Avenue into a sea of red, white and blue.<\/p>\n<p>The parade is set for Saturday, May 16th at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s theme is &#8220;250 Years: United in Freedom.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST READING, Pa. &#8211; This year&#8217;s Armed Forces Day Parade in West Reading will have a shorter route.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[82503,82502,6554,28,736,128,130,129,707],"class_list":["post-184791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-armed-forces-day","tag-military-parade","tag-parade","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-west-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184791","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=184791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}