{"id":217637,"date":"2026-06-12T18:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/217637\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T18:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:11:09","slug":"serving-up-smiles-at-childrens-hospital-of-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/217637\/","title":{"rendered":"Serving up smiles at Children&#8217;s Hospital of Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByTodd Haas<\/p>\n<p>Friday, June 12, 2026 5:04PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Serving up smiles at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB eTIW sUzSN ebVHC \">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania &#8212; The Wawa Coffee &amp; Care Cart has been in operation at Children&#8217;s Hospital of Philadelphia for about 30 years. The idea is to bring a little light to one of the hardest moments in a parent&#8217;s life. The cart makes daily rounds going from room to room giving out free hot and cold drinks. The reality is, most parents are unable to leave their child&#8217;s side, but the coffee cart is there to help out. The service is made up mostly of volunteers who devote their time serving up drinks and a glimmer of hope when patients and parents need it most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByTodd Haas Friday, June 12, 2026 5:04PM Philadelphia, Pennsylvania &#8212; The Wawa Coffee &amp; Care Cart has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[77597,15065,72050,6981,9598,524,91899,12727,69,71,70,2404,5795],"class_list":["post-217637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-beverages","tag-care","tag-cart","tag-childrens-hospital-of-philadelphia","tag-coffee","tag-community","tag-feel-good","tag-patient","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-volunteer","tag-wawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217637","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=217637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}