{"id":3626,"date":"2025-10-16T08:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/3626\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T08:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:06:07","slug":"it-exceeded-our-expectations-first-pennside-fall-festival-elicits-positive-response-from-the-community-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/3626\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It exceeded our expectations\u2019: First Pennside Fall Festival elicits positive response from the community | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PENNSIDE, Pa. &#8211; The first ever Pennside Fall Festival wrapped up Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Rides, games, food and all the festival staples you could ever ask for filled up Pennside Drive-in for three days of fun.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say that, for their first year, the response from the community has been overwhelming.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been nothing but positive. We&#8217;ve had people actually write letters, I&#8217;ve gotten messages on Facebook, people dropping off money to buy tickets for kids who may not be able to afford to ride the rides. It&#8217;s been&#8230;it&#8217;s exactly what we planned. We wanted to do something positive for the community and that&#8217;s what happened. It exceeded our expectations, and this community has been supportive and overwhelming. We&#8217;re just grateful,\u201d one of the organizers said.<\/p>\n<p>If you missed out on the fun, no need to worry, organizers are already brainstorming for next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENNSIDE, Pa. &#8211; The first ever Pennside Fall Festival wrapped up Sunday. Rides, games, food and all the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3263,3258,3262,3261,3257,3259,128,130,129,3260],"class_list":["post-3626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-annual-event","tag-community-response","tag-family-entertainment","tag-organizers","tag-pennside-fall-festival","tag-positive-impact","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-rides-and-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626","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=3626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}