{"id":1166,"date":"2016-07-11T12:37:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T16:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wyomissingfoundation.org\/?page_id=1166"},"modified":"2016-10-07T10:54:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T14:54:02","slug":"wyomissing-an-american-dream","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wyomissingfoundation.org\/about\/in-days-gone-by\/wyomissing-an-american-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"WYOMISSING, AN AMERICAN DREAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/BdzB-JCOPBU\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1168\" style=\"margin-top: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px;\" title=\"AmericanDream\" src=\"https:\/\/wyomissingfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/AmericanDream.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wyomissingfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/AmericanDream.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wyomissingfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/AmericanDream-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wyomissingfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/AmericanDream-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ferdinand Thun and Henry Janssen formed a business partnership in the later years of the nineteenth century and created Wyomissing Industries, an enterprise of three companies that grew into a world-class manufacturing giant.<\/p>\n<p>Their business venture, and the amazing success it enjoyed, fueled the development of the Borough of Wyomissing, a suburb of Reading, Pennsylvania. Thun and Janssen and civic partners planned the community of homes, businesses, schools, parks and playgrounds, a hospital, museum, and library. In doing so, they enabled generations of residents to enjoy\u00a0a quality of life that is for many at the very heart of the American Dream.<\/p>\n<p>We invite you to watch a video that tells the story of Wyomissing, the community that serves as a living legacy to two of its founding fathers, Ferdinand Thun and Henry Janssen. The video is a production of PBS39 WLVT.<\/p>\n<p>View the video\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/BdzB-JCOPBU\" target=\"_blank\">Wyomissing, An American Dream<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferdinand Thun and Henry Janssen formed a business partnership in the later years of the nineteenth century and created Wyomissing Industries, an enterprise of three companies that grew into a world-class manufacturing giant. Their business venture, and the amazing success it enjoyed, fueled the development of the Borough of Wyomissing, a suburb of Reading, Pennsylvania. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":949,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyomissingfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyomissingfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyomissingfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyomissingfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyomissingfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wyomissingfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1209,"href":"https:\/\/wyomissingfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1166\/revisions\/1209"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyomissingfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyomissingfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}