{"id":139840,"date":"2026-02-01T18:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T18:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/139840\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T18:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T18:06:08","slug":"walk-for-wishes-marathon-brings-over-1000-to-nsu-campus-more-than-3k-raised-for-local-families-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/139840\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk for Wishes marathon brings over 1,000 to NSU campus, more than $3K raised for local families &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; Crowds of people gathered for this year\u2019s Walk for Wishes 5K marathon, to help assist children facing cancer and other medical challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Over a thousand supporters attended the marathon  at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 17th annual run raised $300,000, to help local families keep up their fight against cancer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is what we all want, when we come out of beating cancer, and any type of illness and it is a meravel thing, to just be here with other people that can understand this and other kids that can have somebody to depend on, and bet on, and it really is an amazing thing,\u201d said Isabella Desptree, a Wish Kid who attended the event.<\/p>\n<p>7\u2019s Alex de Armas attended as the emcee of the event, and told attendees about her dedication to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>7News\u00a0is a proud sponsor of Make-A-Wish Southern Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; Crowds of people gathered for this year\u2019s Walk for Wishes 5K marathon, to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-139840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}