{"id":438617,"date":"2026-08-20T19:32:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T19:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/438617\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T19:32:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T19:32:38","slug":"new-mural-honors-three-east-san-jose-legends-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/438617\/","title":{"rendered":"New mural honors three East San Jose legends \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new mural in East San Jose is paying tribute to three local legends.<\/p>\n<p>The mural, located at the Y Market on South White Road, honors Heisman Trophy winner and two-time Super Bowl champion Jim Plunkett, Dr. Roberto Cruz and acclaimed playwright and filmmaker Luis Valdez.<\/p>\n<p>Local artist Francisco Ramirez painted the mural after residents, business owners and community leaders were asked who they wanted to see represented in their neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>The mural is part of a $100,000 investment in public art throughout East San Jose.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say the goal is to beautify the area while celebrating the people and stories that helped shape the East Side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new mural in East San Jose is paying tribute to three local legends. The mural, located at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-438617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438617","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=438617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}