{"id":80138,"date":"2026-01-07T11:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T11:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/80138\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T11:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T11:30:08","slug":"reading-native-brings-truckload-of-presents-to-kids-at-opportunity-house-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/80138\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading native brings truckload of presents to kids at Opportunity House | Good News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Reading native Jazsmine Koonhow stayed at the Opportunity House shelter in Berks County when she was just a kid &#8211; and every year she gives back in a big way.<\/p>\n<p>She says she knows what it&#8217;s like to experience homelessness and this is how she&#8217;s paying it forward.<\/p>\n<p>This year, she brought another truckload of presents &#8211; about 1500 gifts &#8211; for children there.<\/p>\n<p>This is her 4th year of celebrating the holidays at Opportunity House. Jazsmine says she hopes this is a reminder for those who have lost their way, that there are good people out there and to never give up, no matter what.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; Reading native Jazsmine Koonhow stayed at the Opportunity House shelter in Berks County when she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,40681,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-80138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-opportunity-house-shelter","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\/80138","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=80138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}