{"id":107451,"date":"2026-02-06T23:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T23:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/107451\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T23:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T23:55:08","slug":"adopt-lehigh-valley-kids-antoine-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/107451\/","title":{"rendered":"Adopt Lehigh Valley Kids: Antoine | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

WHITEHALL, Pa. – From his fleet of foot fly-by, to his Nike’s literally taking air.<\/p>\n

Inside Dave and Buster’s, 17-year-old Antoine is a man on a mission of being in perpetual motion. The teen is one of 3,000 Pennsylvania foster kids looking to make a stop in a permanent home.<\/p>\n

“One of his favorite things is to run fast. He’ll make up little stories, and he’ll ask you what you think about it,” said case worker Marian Kolcun.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“He is very social, we’ll take him to one of the fast food places, and see someone he knows, and say, ‘hey, how you doing, I saw you at school,'” she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Aside from cracking digital plates, Antoine loves working with power tools, and at least here, he’s got wrist power to access any game.<\/p>\n

For Antoine, building relationships is part of his real life DNA.<\/p>\n

He also returned an gifted Nerf gun in fear of safety for his friends, instead settling on a groovy lava lamp.<\/p>\n

For more on Antoine or any other of our Adopt Lehigh Valley Kids, head to the Salvation Army Child Care Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHITEHALL, Pa. – From his fleet of foot fly-by, to his Nike’s literally taking air. Inside Dave and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232,27750,8178,18184],"class_list":["post-107451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area","tag-northern-lehigh-county","tag-southern-lehigh-county","tag-western-lehigh-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}