{"id":201158,"date":"2026-03-22T07:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T07:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201158\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T07:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T07:05:16","slug":"miami-lighthouse-academy-hosts-special-easter-egg-hunt-for-visually-impaired-children-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201158\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Lighthouse Academy hosts special Easter egg hunt for visually impaired children &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; It was an egg-citing day for visually impaired students on Thursday as Miami Lighthouse Academy hosted a special easter hunt with colorful, beeping eggs.<\/p>\n<p>The sounds the eggs made enabled the children to find them by listening.<\/p>\n<p>The Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office Bomb Squad assembled the eggs and hid them throughout the campus garden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor children who are blind, too often, they\u2019re left out. That\u2019s why<a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/miami-dade\/miami-lighthouse-for-the-blind-opens-up-mini-soccer-pitch-for-blind-children-can-play-learn-key-skills\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> I started blind soccer<\/a>, and here, the same goes for an easter egg hunt,\u201d said President and CEO of Miami Lighthouse Academy Virginia Jacko. \u201cThese children are gonna be tickled as they say \u2018I found it! Here it is!\u2019 and it\u2019s because of their hearing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miami Lighthouse staff carefully guided the children as they listened for the beeping and found the eggs.<\/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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.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":"MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; It was an egg-citing day for visually impaired students on Thursday as Miami Lighthouse Academy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-201158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201158","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=201158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}