{"id":388799,"date":"2026-09-03T00:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T00:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/388799\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T00:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T00:40:11","slug":"cape-coral-mayor-to-take-time-off-for-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/388799\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral mayor to take time off for surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Coral mayor to take time off for surgery, plans to try to attend city council virtually<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788396011_340_e61ebd32-1a1a-4bbd-9ca3-2a67f8103004_1769629819.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"James Curtis\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Cape Coral Mayor John Gunter said on Wednesday during the city council meeting that he is sick and will need to have surgery.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">According to the mayor, he was diagnosed months ago, and the surgery is scheduled for Sept. 16.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Gunter said he will be out for four weeks for recovery, and the surgery will require months of rehab, but he plans to try to attend city council meetings virtually.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/qrco.de\/gcnapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylocal.com\/wbbh-ft-myers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cape Coral mayor to take time off for surgery, plans to try to attend city council virtually CAPE&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2872,155611,209,4897,211,19411,210,832,73762,28,916,4329,24128,356,4295,97066,27754,110500,24187,38451,155607,155609,20795,5516,155610,155608],"class_list":["post-388799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-ai","tag-attend-virtually","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-council","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-mayor","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-city-council","tag-city-meeting","tag-florida","tag-game","tag-gulf-coast-news","tag-john-gunter","tag-lee-county","tag-mayor-gunter","tag-months-ago","tag-nurse","tag-public-office","tag-recovery","tag-rehab","tag-sept-16","tag-sick-leave","tag-surgery","tag-text","tag-time-off","tag-virtual-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388799","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=388799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}