{"id":215454,"date":"2026-06-10T11:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215454\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T11:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:41:10","slug":"former-bethlehem-officer-sent-home-after-failing-to-make-connection-on-love-island-usa-bethlehem-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215454\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Bethlehem officer sent home after failing to make connection on &#8216;Love Island USA&#8217; | Bethlehem Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; A former Bethlehem police officer&#8217;s appearance on &#8220;Love Island USA&#8221; came to an end, after less than a week.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Reifel was the first contestant sent home after failing to make a connection on the dating show.<\/p>\n<p>He became a Bethlehem officer last August and then left the force to join the Peacock program.<\/p>\n<p>Bethlehem&#8217;s mayor called Reifel&#8217;s resignation disappointing.<\/p>\n<p>He said the city spent thousands on his training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; A former Bethlehem police officer&#8217;s appearance on &#8220;Love Island USA&#8221; came to an end, after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,28,90371],"class_list":["post-215454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-sean-reifel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215454","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=215454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}