{"id":226227,"date":"2026-06-23T22:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T22:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/226227\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T22:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T22:29:10","slug":"one-tank-trips-visit-john-updikes-childhood-home-in-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/226227\/","title":{"rendered":"One Tank Trips: Visit John Updike&#8217;s childhood home in Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByBill Hartung  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WPVI logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/origin-wpvi.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, June 23, 2026 10:05PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"One Tank Trips: Visit John Updike's childhood home in Berks County\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">SHILLINGTON, Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; In the middle of a modest neighborhood in Berks County sits a home that sparked the imagination of one of America&#8217;s greatest writers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">John Updike, author of classics such as &#8216;The Witches of Eastwick,&#8217; grew up there, and it&#8217;s now a museum honoring this literary icon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The museum is located in Shillington, Pennsylvania. \t<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Action News photojournalist Bill Hartung takes us to Updike&#8217;s childhood home in this edition of One Tank Trips.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByBill Hartung Tuesday, June 23, 2026 10:05PM SHILLINGTON, Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; In the middle of a modest neighborhood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[98198,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-226227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-98198","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226227","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=226227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}