{"id":141702,"date":"2026-01-20T16:22:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/141702\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T16:22:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:22:48","slug":"couple-ties-the-knot-at-kern-medical-during-extended-hospital-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/141702\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple ties the knot at Kern Medical during extended hospital stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A couple got married inside Kern Medical during an extended hospital stay.<\/p>\n<p>Kern Medical posted the love story on social media.<\/p>\n<p>In the post, it said, \u201cWhile facing an extended hospital stay, one couple chose to turn a difficult season into a meaningful moment by getting married right here in our hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Staff brought flowers, a cake made by the caf\u00e9 team, sparkling Martinelli\u2019s apple cider, and \u201cthoughtful touches that transformed their hospital room into a place of celebration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A couple got married inside Kern Medical during an extended hospital stay. PHOTO: Facebook, Kern Medical\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/aa55f47c-a9f4-442c-ac99-65db9d109d00-617916935_1501997855262735_3875080631519912726_n.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A couple got married inside Kern Medical during an extended hospital stay. PHOTO: Facebook, Kern Medical<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur patient shared that their hospital stay was a powerful reminder of how fragile life can be\u2014and they didn\u2019t want to wait another day to say \u2018I do,\u2019\u201d said in the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A couple got married inside Kern Medical during an extended hospital stay. Kern Medical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-141702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}