{"id":192974,"date":"2026-05-15T04:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192974\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T04:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:44:07","slug":"2-children-injured-in-dog-attack-in-philadelphias-kensington-neighborhood-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192974\/","title":{"rendered":"2 children injured in dog attack in Philadelphia&#8217;s Kensington neighborhood, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A brother and sister were injured after being attacked by a dog in Philadelphia&#8217;s Kensington section Thursday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>It happened on the 3800 block of Water Street just after 7 p.m., according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Police said a 3-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl were outside playing with their mother when a neighbor&#8217;s dog got outside the house and attacked them.<\/p>\n<p>The 12-year-old was bitten in the face, according to police. The siblings were both taken to the hospital with significant injuries but were expected to survive, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Animal Control responded to the home to take the dog into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A brother and sister were injured after being attacked by a dog in Philadelphia&#8217;s Kensington section Thursday, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[39496,8921,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-192974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-dog-attack","tag-kensington","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192974","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=192974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}