{"id":287725,"date":"2026-09-17T00:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T00:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287725\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T00:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T00:40:11","slug":"penn-state-berks-kicks-off-hispanic-heritage-month-celebration-with-mariachi-band-mexican-food-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287725\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn State Berks kicks off Hispanic Heritage Month celebration with mariachi band, mexican food | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SPRING TWP., Pa. &#8211; A mariachi band helped kick off the Hispanic Heritage Month celebration at Penn State Berks on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The university hosted a gathering at Perkins Plaza this afternoon, which coincided with the Mexican Day of Independence.<\/p>\n<p>Mexican and Mexican-American faculty and staff spoke at the event, and attendees sampled some tasty Mexican food.<\/p>\n<p>The event is part of the college&#8217;s ongoing efforts to support the local Hispanic and Latino communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPRING TWP., Pa. &#8211; A mariachi band helped kick off the Hispanic Heritage Month celebration at Penn State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-287725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287725","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=287725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}