{"id":281493,"date":"2026-05-22T23:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/281493\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T23:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:50:10","slug":"jacksonville-police-participate-in-special-olympics-torch-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/281493\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville police participate in Special Olympics Torch Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Jacksonville police participated in the local leg of the law enforcement torch run this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Runners known as the Guardians of the Flame teamed up with Special Olympics athletes to champion acceptance and inclusion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The group started at the police department and ran to 300 Freedom Way, lasting over seven miles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The rain held off at the beginning of the run, but fell toward the end as they reached their destination to hand the torch to the Onslow County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Jacksonville police participated in the local leg of the law enforcement torch run this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9389,9390,119922,119921,116,118,117,15668,1598,4481,1854,12343,11513,132,7228,6344,55154,6342,46644,72047,103685,4480],"class_list":["post-281493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-athlete","tag-athletes","tag-freedom-way","tag-guardians-of-the-flame","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville-police-department","tag-law-enforcement","tag-nc","tag-north-carolina","tag-onslow-county","tag-onslow-county-sheriffs-office","tag-police","tag-run","tag-runner","tag-runners","tag-running","tag-special-olympics","tag-torch","tag-torch-run","tag-witn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281493","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=281493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}