{"id":164861,"date":"2026-02-22T17:42:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/164861\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T17:42:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:42:27","slug":"fhp-honors-trooper-michael-diego-with-fundraiser-escort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/164861\/","title":{"rendered":"FHP honors Trooper Michael Diego with fundraiser, escort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 22, 2026, 10:18 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Florida Highway Patrol is honoring the\u00a0life and service of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/story\/news\/2026\/02\/19\/florida-highway-patrol-trooper-dies-during-training-in-gadsden-county\/88754544007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Trooper Michael Diego,<\/a> who tragically passed away in the line of duty on Feb. 18, with a video tribute and an online fundraiser to assist his family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Diego died during a medical emergency while participating in a competitive process for the Patrol&#8217;s Criminal Interdiction Unit at the FHP Training Academy in Gadsden County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 22, 2026, 10:18 a.m. ET The Florida Highway Patrol is honoring the\u00a0life and service of Trooper Michael&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64,65,66,4054,51,5603,14989,1744,308,96,35,232,234,233,34],"class_list":{"0":"post-164861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-accessmetered","9":"tag-sstsnews","10":"tag-sstsnnews","11":"tag-tagcharity-philanthropy","12":"tag-tagdeath-tragedy","13":"tag-tagflorida-highway-patrol","14":"tag-taggofundme","15":"tag-taglaw-enforcement","16":"tag-taglocal-news","17":"tag-tagoverall-positive","18":"tag-tagstory-highlights-ai-enabled","19":"tag-tallahassee","20":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","21":"tag-tallahassee-news","22":"tag-typestory"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164861","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=164861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}