{"id":698647,"date":"2026-07-18T16:21:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/698647\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T16:21:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:21:17","slug":"stories-to-make-you-smile-from-across-the-west-midlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/698647\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories to make you smile from across the West Midlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While the headlines are often filled with more serious stories, there are still plenty of positive and happier moments happening across the West Midlands &#8211; and we want to celebrate and share them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This week, we heard about the grannies who want the world to dance, courting celebrities along the way; spoke to a newly qualified doctor with an amazing story to share; and learned how one dad stepped in to save his daughter&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Here&#8217;s a look at some of those news stories from across the region:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the headlines are often filled with more serious stories, there are still plenty of positive and happier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-698647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}