{"id":162000,"date":"2026-02-20T01:26:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T01:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162000\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T01:26:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T01:26:21","slug":"flags-to-fly-at-half-staff-friday-in-honor-of-former-florida-rep-terry-fields-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162000\/","title":{"rendered":"Flags to fly at half-staff Friday in honor of former Florida Rep. Terry Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Flags at the Florida State Capitol and throughout Duval County will fly at half-staff on Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/jacksonville-mourns-former-rep-terry-033125989.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:in honor of Terry Fields;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in honor of Terry Fields<\/a>, a former state representative and Jacksonville City Council member who passed away earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;He will be remembered for his dedication to improving his community,&#8221; the memorandum read. It orders that flags remain lowered from sunrise to sunset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fields died on Sunday, Feb. 8, at the age of 66 following a brief illness. Friends, family and city officials attended funeral and wake services for Fields in Jacksonville on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fields served on the Jacksonville City Council before representing the state&#8217;s 14th District in the Florida House of Representatives in the early 2000s. During that time, the Democrat built a reputation as a leader who worked across political lines and prioritized working families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In his later years, Fields continued serving the community as a teacher at Duval Charter School at Westside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flags at the Florida State Capitol and throughout Duval County will fly at half-staff on Friday in honor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,9129,29,9104,4040,77535],"class_list":{"0":"post-162000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-house","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-florida-state-capitol","13":"tag-jacksonville-city-council","14":"tag-terry-fields"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162000","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=162000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}