{"id":280374,"date":"2026-09-06T15:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T15:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280374\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T15:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T15:30:11","slug":"reading-pagoda-reopens-for-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280374\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Pagoda reopens for tours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Foundation for the Reading Pagoda offered tours Sunday of the renovated city landmark. A total of 360 people signed up for the tours, which were scheduled on the half-hour.<\/p>\n<p>A tree that fell on Duryea Drive overnight Sunday cut the power to the Pagoda, but the city fire marshal approved the tours under emergency power, foundation President Alexa Freyman said.<\/p>\n<p>Additional tours will be offered Sept. 19 and Oct. 24, with more dates planned. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readingpagoda.com\/visit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.readingpagoda.com\/visit<\/a> for ticket information. The Pagoda is expected to resume regular operations in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Foundation for the Reading Pagoda offered tours Sunday of the renovated city landmark. A total of 360&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-280374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280374","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=280374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}