{"id":283876,"date":"2026-05-25T18:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T18:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283876\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T18:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T18:28:08","slug":"port-st-lucie-residents-gather-to-honor-fallen-service-members-on-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283876\/","title":{"rendered":"Port St. Lucie residents gather to honor fallen service members on Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">Communities across the Treasure Coast gathered Monday to honor the men and women who gave their lives in service to the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In Port St. Lucie, dozens came together at Veterans Memorial Park for the city&#8217;s annual Memorial Day ceremony featuring patriotic music, a rifle salute, the sounding of taps, and reflections from veterans and local leaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Veterans in attendance said the day serves as a powerful reminder of the sacrifices made by service members and their families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8220;All of us who have been in service have lost friends, I lost somebody I grew up with in high school, so it&#8217;s just a day to remember those lost souls,&#8221; Roy Bailey said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The ceremony also included performances by the Port St. Lucie Community Band and honored those who never made it home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Communities across the Treasure Coast gathered Monday to honor the men and women who gave their lives in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-283876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283876","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=283876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}