{"id":114184,"date":"2026-02-14T21:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T21:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/114184\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T21:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T21:17:08","slug":"the-cupids-chase-5k-gathers-runners-to-the-philadelphia-zoo-for-a-good-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/114184\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;Cupid&#8217;s Chase 5k&#8217; gathers runners to the Philadelphia Zoo for a good cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; This Valentine&#8217;s Day, local runners spent their morning at the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.philadelphiazoo.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Zoo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">They participated in the Cupid&#8217;s Chase 5k, an event that supports the national programming of &#8220;Community Options Inc.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;We are in 12 states nationwide&#8230;Our mission is to build housing and employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities,&#8221; said Executive Director of the Philadelphia Regional Office, Khyel Dicks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;This year, we have over 700 runners, which is the most we&#8217;ve ever had&#8230;So to have this type of support on such a very special day for a lot of people&#8230;is overwhelming,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">For more information, check out the video above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Also, check out their <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.comop.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; This Valentine&#8217;s Day, local runners spent their morning at the Philadelphia Zoo. They participated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[54491,22224,6725,69,71,70,13894,39210],"class_list":["post-114184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-54491","tag-5k","tag-nonprofit","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-running","tag-valentines-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114184","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=114184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}