{"id":324191,"date":"2026-11-09T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T14:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/324191\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T14:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T14:30:08","slug":"singing-in-support-of-man-battling-cancer-in-lackawanna-county-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/324191\/","title":{"rendered":"Singing in support of man battling cancer in Lackawanna County man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Kirby was diagnosed with stage four metastatic melanoma back in August.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 At Montage Mountain in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Scranton<\/a>, the karaoke machine was blaring as people sang their hearts out to raise money to help a man in his battle with cancer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Back in August, Joe Kirby was diagnosed with stage four metastatic melanoma, has been undergoing treatment ever since, and has been unable to work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Joe was surrounded by the support of his community.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Speechless, um, I feel good. Um, it&#8217;s overwhelming. I&#8217;m used to putting out the love, not getting it back,&#8221; says Joe Kirby.<\/p>\n<p>All proceeds from the karaoke event in Scranton will benefit Joe as he focuses on his health and healing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Kirby was diagnosed with stage four metastatic melanoma back in August. SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 At Montage Mountain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-324191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324191","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=324191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}