{"id":476961,"date":"2026-09-27T01:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T01:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/476961\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T01:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T01:08:07","slug":"central-valley-first-responders-honored-at-the-blue-mass-at-st-johns-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/476961\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Valley first responders honored at the Blue Mass at St. John\u2019s Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 First responders from across the Central Valley were honored in downtown Fresno on Friday during the Diocese of Fresno\u2019s annual Blue Mass.<\/p>\n<p>The Mass marks the 12th year of the tradition at St. John\u2019s Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>The Mass honors active, retired, and fallen first responders, with agencies from across the valley taking part in the event.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Joseph Brennan blessed the badges of first responders during the Mass, then headed outside to bless their emergency cars.<\/p>\n<p>The diocese says the annual tradition is a way to show first responders they have the support and prayers of the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 First responders from across the Central Valley were honored in downtown Fresno on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-476961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476961","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=476961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}