{"id":279942,"date":"2026-09-05T23:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T23:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279942\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T23:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T23:18:10","slug":"birdsboro-celebrates-with-big-250th-bash-southern-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279942\/","title":{"rendered":"Birdsboro celebrates with &#8216;Big 250th Bash&#8217; | Southern Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BIRDSBORO, Pa. \u2013 Labor Day weekend kicked off with celebrations for America\u2019s 250th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>In Berks County, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/959915290287062\/?active_tab=about\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;Birdsboro Big 250th Bash&#8221;<\/a> started off the day with a patriotic 1776 parade on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone from first responders, to local community groups, to student athletes walked in the parade.<\/p>\n<p>The fun continues until 8 p.m. with food trucks, live music and a petting zoo.<\/p>\n<p>The party closes out with a fireworks show at 8:15 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BIRDSBORO, Pa. \u2013 Labor Day weekend kicked off with celebrations for America\u2019s 250th birthday. In Berks County, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17708,7324,9860,64683,6554,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-279942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-250th-anniversary","tag-birdsboro","tag-fireworks","tag-labor-day","tag-parade","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\/279942","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=279942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}