{"id":324850,"date":"2026-05-20T17:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/324850\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T17:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:41:12","slug":"historic-central-fresno-neighborhood-monument-being-restored-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/324850\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic central Fresno neighborhood monument being restored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A historic central Fresno monument will return after it was destroyed in a crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you&#8217;ve ever been in the area of Palm and Simpson, near Fresno High, you may have spotted a 12-foot pillar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Last December, the city said a DUI driver slammed into it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Instead of scrapping the marker, Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer announced the city is rebuilding it by hand, using as much of the original material as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;For generations, these 12-foot pillars have welcomed residents into the neighborhood and become an important part of this community&#8217;s identity and character,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The pillar welcomes people to the Boulevard Gardens neighborhood, which was created in 1919.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two other markers will be repaired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Work is expected to finish in two to three weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A historic central Fresno monument will return after it was destroyed in a crash. If you&#8217;ve ever been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113,10332],"class_list":["post-324850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-jerry-dyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324850","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=324850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}