{"id":308758,"date":"2026-05-10T08:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T08:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/308758\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T08:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T08:26:17","slug":"long-beach-firefighter-recognized-by-gulfport-exchange-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/308758\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach firefighter recognized by Gulfport Exchange Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Miss. (WXXV)- One Long Beach firefighter has been recognized for his work.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly Whitman was selected as \u2018Firefighter of the Year\u2019 by the Gulfport Exchange Club.<\/p>\n<p>The department says Whitman\u2019s dedication, professionalism, and commitment to serving citizens has made a difference.<\/p>\n<p>From emergency response to community support, his work does not go unnoticed.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Miss. (WXXV)- One Long Beach firefighter has been recognized for his work. Kelly Whitman was selected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-308758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308758","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=308758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}