{"id":202101,"date":"2026-05-25T20:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202101\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T20:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:10:17","slug":"snapped-pole-cuts-power-to-hundreds-in-reading-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202101\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapped pole cuts power to hundreds in Reading | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa.\u00a0\u2013 A snapped pole\u00a0\u2014 completely unrelated to Wednesday&#8217;s weather \u2014 cut the power to hundreds in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the pole could be seen dangling from wires in the area of North Sixth and Woodward streets in Reading.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Damaged pole on Woodward St. in Reading 3-5-25\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/67c8a3e137b68.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    WMZ-TV | Chad Blimline<\/p>\n<p>Met-Ed said the damage was cause by equipment failure and was temporarily repaired.<\/p>\n<p>The power company said the pole will be replaced later this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa.\u00a0\u2013 A snapped pole\u00a0\u2014 completely unrelated to Wednesday&#8217;s weather \u2014 cut the power to hundreds in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-202101","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\/202101","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=202101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}