{"id":3661,"date":"2025-10-16T08:30:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/3661\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T08:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:30:22","slug":"pagoda-closes-for-repairs-in-reading-pennsylvania-people-asked-to-avoid-area-atop-mount-penn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/3661\/","title":{"rendered":"Pagoda closes for repairs in Reading, Pennsylvania; people asked to avoid area atop Mount Penn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">The historic building is expected to be closed for 5 to 6 months for repairs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Reading Pagoda closes for repairs; people asked to avoid area atop Mount Penn\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The historic building is expected to be closed for five to six months for repairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">READING, Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; The iconic red lights at the Reading Pagoda are going dark, at least for a little while.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The historic building is expected to be closed for five to six months for repairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials say crews will be working on cracks in the Pagoda&#8217;s foundation, as well as its electrical system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">People are asked to avoid the area atop Mount Penn as a precaution.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The historic building is expected to be closed for 5 to 6 months for repairs. The historic building&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3305,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-3661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-3305","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\/3661","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=3661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}