{"id":33523,"date":"2025-11-13T23:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T23:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/33523\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T23:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T23:47:10","slug":"2025-reading-holiday-tree-goes-up-at-penn-square-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/33523\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Reading Holiday Tree goes up at Penn Square | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; The City of Reading is getting ready to welcome the holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>Crews spent today putting up the city&#8217;s Christmas tree in Penn Square.<\/p>\n<p>A tree lighting ceremony will take place next Thursday at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>There will be speeches, live music, sweet treats and a visit from Santa Claus himself.<\/p>\n<p>It all leads up to Reading&#8217;s Holiday Parade next Saturday morning at 10.<\/p>\n<p>69 News and many other community groups will be there for the celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; The City of Reading is getting ready to welcome the holiday season. Crews spent today&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[19334,21018,28,736,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-33523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-christmas-tree","tag-penn-square","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","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\/33523","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=33523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}