{"id":5698,"date":"2025-10-15T23:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/5698\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T23:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:47:08","slug":"spirit-halloween-brings-joy-and-costumes-to-kids-at-nicklaus-childrens-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/5698\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirit Halloween brings joy and costumes to kids at Nicklaus Children\u2019s Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0October 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM<\/p>\n<p>Spirit Halloween brings joy and costumes to kids at Nicklaus Children\u2019s Hospital <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 A sweet Halloween tradition is back at Nicklaus Children\u2019s Hospital in Miami.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Thanks to Spirit Halloween\u2019s \u201cSpirit of Children\u201d program, young patients and their siblings got to pick out costumes, enjoy treats, and meet surprise characters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The event is all about bringing smiles and a sense of normalcy to kids spending Halloween in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cTheir mission is to make kids feel like kids,\u201d said Justin Graham, Spirit of Children event leader. \u201cWe\u2019ve donated a bunch of costumes for the kids to pick out. We had activities and crafts for the kids to participate in, so that the kids can experience Halloween despite their journey in the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Spirit Halloween has raised more than $1.2 million for Nicklaus Children\u2019s over the years, helping make hospitals a little less scary for kids.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Pablo Hernandez\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/96ffb9dd-5e0a-4be5-8ede-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Pablo Hernandez <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Pablo Hernandez is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born in Cuba and has lived in Miami, Florida since 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0October 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM Spirit Halloween brings joy and costumes to kids at Nicklaus Children\u2019s Hospital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-5698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5698","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=5698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}