{"id":183996,"date":"2026-05-05T02:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/183996\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T02:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:44:09","slug":"from-a-galaxy-far-far-away-to-allentown-star-wars-characters-visit-childrens-hospital-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/183996\/","title":{"rendered":"From a galaxy far, far away to Allentown: Star Wars characters visit children\u2019s hospital | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Characters from Star Wars banded together to bring a bit of the galaxy to kids at Reilly Children&#8217;s Hospital Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Two local Star Wars fan groups volunteered and helped Chewbacca, Darth Vader, Storm Troopers, Tusken Raiders and more go from room to room.<\/p>\n<p>They greeted kids, took photos, and handed out galactic goodies courtesy of Starlight Children&#8217;s Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The characters also visited patients at LVHN Cedar Crest and Muhlenberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Characters from Star Wars banded together to bring a bit of the galaxy to kids&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,82091,82092,82095,80736,82093,82094],"class_list":["post-183996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-chewbacca","tag-darth-vader","tag-reilly-children","tag-star-wars","tag-storm-troopers","tag-tusken-raiders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183996","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=183996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}