{"id":266105,"date":"2026-08-15T22:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T22:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266105\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T22:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T22:24:07","slug":"chinatown-artist-blends-philly-icons-of-the-past-and-present-in-new-mural-featuring-lebron-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266105\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinatown artist blends Philly icons of the past and present in new mural featuring LeBron James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CHINATOWN (PHILADELPHIA), Pennyslvania (WPVI) &#8212; A new mural in Chinatown blends the past and present icons of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn, shares an iconic pose with the new 76er: LeBron James.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Artist Chenlin Cai, who also happens to be a super fan of the basketball star, hopes to bring tourism to his beloved neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">So far, it&#8217;s been a slam dunk for all who stop and see it.<\/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 Chenlin Cai&#8217;s <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/chenlin.cai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">social media<\/a>.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHINATOWN (PHILADELPHIA), Pennyslvania (WPVI) &#8212; A new mural in Chinatown blends the past and present icons of Philadelphia.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[112317,5956,12063,18831,7136,48804,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-266105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-112317","tag-basketball","tag-chinatown","tag-lebron-james","tag-mural","tag-painting","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266105","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=266105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}