{"id":69248,"date":"2025-12-24T06:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/69248\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T06:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:37:06","slug":"former-berks-catholic-standout-athlete-surprises-kindergarteners-with-toys-at-reading-school-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/69248\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Berks Catholic standout athlete surprises kindergarteners with toys at Reading school | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; A former standout Berks County athlete is literally giving back to his former school.<\/p>\n<p>Jay Jay Jordan returned to Saint Peter&#8217;s School in Reading today, bringing gifts for the kindergarten students.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan was a standout athlete at Berks Catholic and is now an All American at Slippery Rock University.<\/p>\n<p>Jay Jay tells us he&#8217;s happy to come back every year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The main thing is, I have an amazing life. To spread that to others right now is just the main thing right now, and that&#8217;s kind of just what I want to do. My life&#8217;s amazing so why not make it for other people,&#8221; Jordan said.<\/p>\n<p>He says he got the students Barbies, footballs and other toys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; A former standout Berks County athlete is literally giving back to his former school. Jay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[28,736,128,130,129,36579],"class_list":{"0":"post-69248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-reading","10":"tag-reading-city","11":"tag-reading-city-headlines","12":"tag-reading-city-news","13":"tag-saint-peter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69248","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=69248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}