{"id":123659,"date":"2026-01-19T12:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/123659\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T12:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:17:11","slug":"revisiting-the-unforgettable-cape-florida-bicentennial-celebration-beachcombings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/123659\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting the unforgettable Cape Florida Bicentennial Celebration | BeachCombings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photos by Alberto \u201cChacho\u201d Hernandez, Bo Asciu, and Keith Spurlock<\/p>\n<p>An event so magical, it\u2019s worth another look<\/p>\n<p>December\u2019s celebration of the Cape Florida Lighthouse, El Farito, and its 200th birthday, was a magical night. A symbol of change since 1825, the lighthouse was honored in a way worthy of the oldest standing structure in Miami-Dade County.<\/p>\n<p>Several hundred visitors enjoyed an unforgettable evening of 3D mapping projections, holographic displays, music, presentations, poetry and skits by Juggerknot Theatre Company that brought the lighthouse\u2019s remarkable history to life.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration was made possible through the collective efforts of Friends of Cape Florida, the Key Biscayne Community Foundation, Florida Parks &amp; Recreation Department, Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park staff, Chris Hosford Studio, Steve Sterling and Hologram Solutions &amp; Technologies), Preference Consulting and many community partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photos by Alberto \u201cChacho\u201d Hernandez, Bo Asciu, and Keith Spurlock An event so magical, it\u2019s worth another look&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[38923,9279,61404,588,126,1375,123,125,124],"class_list":{"0":"post-123659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-beachcombings","9":"tag-bicentennial-celebration","10":"tag-cape-florida","11":"tag-daniella-levine-cava","12":"tag-key-biscayne","13":"tag-mayor","14":"tag-miami","15":"tag-miami-headlines","16":"tag-miami-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}