{"id":256041,"date":"2026-07-31T04:17:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256041\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T04:17:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:17:35","slug":"shapiro-honors-late-artist-activist-keith-haring-northern-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256041\/","title":{"rendered":"Shapiro honors late artist, activist Keith Haring | Northern Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, Pa. \u2013 Gov. Josh Shapiro is paying tribute to a Berks County icon.<\/p>\n<p>He invited the family of Kutztown native Keith Haring to the Governor&#8217;s Residence this week.<\/p>\n<p>Haring was a world-renowned pop artist and advocate for the LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n<p>He died from AIDS in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Haring\u2019s artwork is still displayed around the world. Shapiro says each piece is a reminder that Pennsylvania is welcoming for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, Pa. \u2013 Gov. Josh Shapiro is paying tribute to a Berks County icon. He invited the family&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[48567,4531,33,78644,6652,109010,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-256041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-aids","tag-governor","tag-josh-shapiro","tag-keith-haring","tag-kutztown","tag-lgbtq-advocate","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\/256041","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=256041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}