{"id":260666,"date":"2026-05-06T14:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260666\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T14:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:24:08","slug":"welcome-to-the-flamingos-florida-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260666\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to The Flamingos &#8211; Florida Weekly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridaweekly.com\/audio-articles\/player\/audio-article-1116733\" onclick=\"_paq.push([&#039;trackEvent&#039;, &#039;Article&#039;, &#039;Article Playlist&#039;, &#039;\/\/audio-articles\/player\/audio-article-1116733&#039;]);\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Open Audio Article Player<\/a> \t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridaweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/fort-myers_2026-05-06\/2p1.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1116737\" class=\"wp-image-1116737 size-large lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2p1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"BEST OF 2026\" width=\"1024\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/683;\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1116737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BEST OF 2026<\/p>\n<p>Florida Weekly\u2019s annual celebration of the wonderfully weird and wildly delightful parts of life in Southwest Florida. From the sublime to the ridiculous, the heartfelt to the hilarious, these are the things that make this paradise such a fascinating place to call home.\n<\/p>\n<p>Sure, we give a nod to the folks who help keep the lights on \u2014 our advertisers get their moment in the sun, and rightfully so. But the heart of The Flamingos lies in what truly captivates us: the stories, spots and people that stir up laughter, curiosity and pride across our community.\n<\/p>\n<p>To see all of the \u201cBEST OF 2026\u201d stories, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridaweekly.com\/category\/fort-myers\/fort-myers-best-of\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here,<\/a> or find the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridaweekly.com\/pageview\/viewer\/fort-myers_2026-05-06\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">e-edition by clicking here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Best contributing writers:\n<\/p>\n<p>Kelly J. Farrell, Ron Hayes, Kelly K. Henry, Jennifer Huber, Bob Massey, Johnathan Minehan, Garry Overbey, Gretel Sarmiento and Kristin Voit\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open Audio Article Player BEST OF 2026 Florida Weekly\u2019s annual celebration of the wonderfully weird and wildly delightful&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-260666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260666","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=260666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}