{"id":328986,"date":"2026-07-04T01:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T01:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/328986\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T01:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T01:44:18","slug":"news4jax-at-1030-a-m-freedom-fest-performer-shares-story-of-triumph-after-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/328986\/","title":{"rendered":"News4JAX+ at 10:30 a.m.: Freedom Fest performer shares story of triumph after tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOCAL NEWS<\/p>\n<p>Published:\u00a0July 3, 2026 at 12:09 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 coHFxg kVVZcY\">Tomorrow, many of us will celebrate our nation&#8217;s independence with fireworks and live music.\u00a0<br \/>\nBut one of tonight&#8217;s performers has a story that reminds us what that freedom has cost.\u00a0<br \/>\nMarine veteran Sal Gonzalez survived a devastating IED explosion in Iraq, losing his left leg and facing a traumatic brain injury and PTSD. Today, he&#8217;s using country music to heal, inspire, and connect with others.\u00a0<br \/>\nSal joins us ahead of his performance at Freedom Fest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOCAL NEWS Published:\u00a0July 3, 2026 at 12:09 PM Tomorrow, many of us will celebrate our nation&#8217;s independence with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,135855],"class_list":["post-328986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-news4jax-at-1030-a-m-freedom-fest-performer-shares-story-of-triumph-after-tragedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328986","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=328986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}