{"id":276134,"date":"2026-09-01T00:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/276134\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T00:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:24:13","slug":"reading-pagoda-set-to-open-for-the-first-time-since-covid-19-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/276134\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Pagoda set to open for the first time since COVID-19 | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Reading&#8217;s landmark Pagoda is nearly ready to begin welcoming guests again for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Four ticketed events are planned in the coming months to give folks a sneak peek at what&#8217;s new.<\/p>\n<p>The Pagoda has undergone millions of dollars in renovations in recent months, including upgrades to the HVAC and electrical systems.<\/p>\n<p>Tours are set for this Sunday, and then again on Saturday, September 19th.<\/p>\n<p>The other events will take place on October 4th and 24th.<\/p>\n<p>To secure a spot on an upcoming tour, click this <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.readingpagoda.com\/visit#smtx-click\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; Reading&#8217;s landmark Pagoda is nearly ready to begin welcoming guests again for the first time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7619,1756,98226,28,115846,736,128,130,129,76859,9327,33358,7803],"class_list":["post-276134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-covid-19","tag-events","tag-landmark","tag-pennsylvania","tag-public-tours","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-pagoda","tag-renovation","tag-reopening","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276134","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=276134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}