{"id":234592,"date":"2026-07-03T10:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T10:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234592\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T10:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T10:52:09","slug":"fifa-world-cup-watch-parties-in-reading-begin-friday-southern-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234592\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup watch parties in Reading begin Friday | Southern Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2013 Lots of soccer fans are expected at Santander Arena this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday and Saturday, Reading will host the first two FIFA World Cup Fan Zone parties.<\/p>\n<p>A ribbon-cutting ceremony is set for 11 a.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The parties will run from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>World Cup games will play on screens and there will be food, activities and live music.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Go Go Gadjet&#8221; performs Friday, and &#8220;Main Squeeze&#8221; plays on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 Lots of soccer fans are expected at Santander Arena this weekend. On Friday and Saturday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[88463,2013,101273,128,130,129,39827],"class_list":["post-234592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-fan-zone","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-go-go-gadjet","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-watch-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234592","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=234592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}