{"id":76413,"date":"2026-01-02T20:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/76413\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T20:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:29:08","slug":"reading-city-council-inauguration-ceremony-set-for-monday-afternoon-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/76413\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading City Council inauguration ceremony set for Monday afternoon | State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Next week, the City of Reading will host an inauguration ceremony for incoming members of Reading City Council.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony will take place Monday at noon at the Schmidt Training and Technology Center on the campus of Reading Area Community College.<\/p>\n<p>Council members for districts one, four, five and the council president will take the oath of office.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond Baker is the only newly elected member.<\/p>\n<p>He replaces Wesley Butler, who became the youngest member in council history at age 20.<\/p>\n<p>Butler did not seek reelection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; Next week, the City of Reading will host an inauguration ceremony for incoming members of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[39337,39335,28,39316,736,12962,128,1095,130,129,39336,5635],"class_list":{"0":"post-76413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-ceremonies","9":"tag-inauguration","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-raymond-baker","12":"tag-reading","13":"tag-reading-area-community-college","14":"tag-reading-city","15":"tag-reading-city-council","16":"tag-reading-city-headlines","17":"tag-reading-city-news","18":"tag-state-ritual-and-ceremonies","19":"tag-wesley-butler"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76413","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=76413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}