{"id":255902,"date":"2026-07-30T23:38:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T23:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/255902\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T23:38:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T23:38:39","slug":"reading-hospital-workers-give-back-by-volunteering-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/255902\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Hospital workers give back by volunteering | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Employees from Reading Hospital are pitching in to help the local food bank at a crucial time.<\/p>\n<p>The employees helped pack what are known as &#8220;senior food boxes&#8221; at Helping Harvest Food Bank in Spring Township.<\/p>\n<p>The boxes are distributed monthly to more than 21-hundred seniors.<\/p>\n<p>The employees are in the middle of three straight days of volunteering with Helping Harvest, as the hospital has a program that lets employees volunteer during the workday.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say there is a huge boost right now as donations and volunteering tend to slow down in the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; Employees from Reading Hospital are pitching in to help the local food bank at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2347,1244,108974,5706,31980,128,130,129,2791,108973,15881],"class_list":["post-255902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-community-support","tag-elderly","tag-employee-engagement","tag-food-bank","tag-helping-harvest","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-hospital","tag-senior-food-boxes","tag-volunteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255902","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=255902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}