{"id":227946,"date":"2026-06-25T16:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/227946\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T16:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:27:07","slug":"water-main-break-closes-reading-city-hall-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/227946\/","title":{"rendered":"Water main break closes Reading City Hall | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Reading City Hall is closed Thursday due to a water main break in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The break is in the 800 block of Washington Street, and water service has been shut off in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, officials hoped to open City Hall midday, but later said it would remain closed Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The city anticipates reopening for normal business hours on Friday at 8 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; Reading City Hall is closed Thursday due to a water main break in the city.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[98740,128,8002,130,129,63987,56882,2217,98739],"class_list":["post-227946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-delayed-opening","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-hall","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-utility-crews","tag-washington-street","tag-water-main-break","tag-water-service-shut-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227946","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=227946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}