{"id":239166,"date":"2026-07-09T08:58:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/239166\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T08:58:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:58:28","slug":"america-250-berks-county-liberty-bell-ceremony-in-reading-pa-july-8-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/239166\/","title":{"rendered":"America 250 Berks County Liberty Bell Ceremony in Reading, PA (July 8, 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 8, 2026, Berks County celebrated the 250th anniversary of both the United States and the public reading of the Declaration of Independence in downtown Reading, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Berks County Commissioner Christian Leinbach hosted the ceremony, where he delivered a special address and rang the Berks County Liberty Bell. The event also featured various guest speakers and patriotic performances by the Ringgold Band.<\/p>\n<p>From the program: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bctv.org\/program\/special-programming\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Special Programming<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On July 8, 2026, Berks County celebrated the 250th anniversary of both the United States and the public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-239166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","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\/239166","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=239166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}