{"id":79313,"date":"2026-01-06T15:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/79313\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T15:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:32:08","slug":"large-sinkhole-opens-in-philadelphias-west-oak-lane-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/79313\/","title":{"rendered":"Large sinkhole opens in Philadelphia&#8217;s West Oak Lane neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large sinkhole opened up in Philadelphia&#8217;s West Oak Lane neighborhood Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The large hole is blocked off at the five-point intersection that includes Rodney Street and North Wister Street.<\/p>\n<p>People who live in the area said their water was shut off overnight, and that the city has been working on water pipes at the intersection for more than a month.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/chopper-germantown-sinkhole-010626-frame-30006.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Large hole at Rodney Street and N. Wister Street in West Oak Lane \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Large hole at Rodney Street and N. Wister Street in West Oak Lane<\/p>\n<p>                CBS Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Philadelphia has reached out to the Philadelphia Water Department for more information.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large sinkhole opened up in Philadelphia&#8217;s West Oak Lane neighborhood Tuesday morning. The large hole is blocked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,26299,18522],"class_list":["post-79313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-sinkhole","tag-west-oak-lane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79313","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=79313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}