{"id":323341,"date":"2026-11-07T22:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T22:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/323341\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T22:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T22:34:09","slug":"reading-event-a-drawing-card-for-pokemon-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/323341\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading event a drawing card for Pokemon fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The PokeKon Fest Saturday drew Pokemon collectors, vendors, artists, gamers and families to the DoubleTree by Hilton in Reading.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Pokemon fans look over displays at the PokeKon Fest at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, 701 Penn St., on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2026.  (BILL UHRICH\/READINGEAGLE)\" width=\"3000\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/REG-L-PokeKonFest1883.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8612099\" \/>Pokemon fans look over displays at the PokeKon Fest at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, 701 Penn St., on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2026.  (BILL UHRICH\/READINGEAGLE)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Hox, left, portraying Naruto, confronts Dave, portraying Akatsuki, confront each other at the PokeKon Fest at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, 701 Penn St., on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2026.  (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)\" width=\"3000\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/REG-L-PokeKonFest1880.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8612100\" \/>Hox, left, portraying Naruto, confronts Dave, portraying Akatsuki, confront each other at the PokeKon Fest at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, 701 Penn St., on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2026.  (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Pokemon fans look over displays at the PokeKon Fest at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, 701 Penn St., on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2026.  (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)\" width=\"3000\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/REG-L-PokeKonFest1884.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8612101\" \/>Pokemon fans look over displays at the PokeKon Fest at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, 701 Penn St., on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2026.  (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"From left, Liam Hoffman, 9; Remy Miller, 9; and Mason Hoffman, 10, all from New Tripoli, Lehigh County, sort through Pokemon cards at the PokeKon Fest at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, 701 Penn St., on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2026.  (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)\" width=\"3000\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/REG-L-PokeKonFest1885.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8612102\" \/>From left, Liam Hoffman, 9; Remy Miller, 9; and Mason Hoffman, 10, all from New Tripoli, Lehigh County, sort through Pokemon cards at the PokeKon Fest at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, 701 Penn St., on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2026.  (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The PokeKon Fest Saturday drew Pokemon collectors, vendors, artists, gamers and families to the DoubleTree by Hilton in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323342,"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-323341","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\/323341","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=323341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}