{"id":453228,"date":"2026-11-11T02:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T02:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/453228\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T02:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T02:06:13","slug":"9-11-memorial-whales-to-move-from-tallahassee-to-new-home-in-panacea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/453228\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/11 memorial whales to move from Tallahassee to new home in Panacea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WAKULLA COUNTY, FL (WTXL) \u2014 The 9\/11 whales will be migrating to a new home closer to the water this week. The whales will have a new home in Panacea under the care of the Gulf Specimen Marine Lab. <\/p>\n<p>WATCH FULL REPORT BELOW:<\/p>\n<p>9\/11 memorial whales to migrate from Tallahassee to new home in Panacea near the water this week<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll be moved to Panacea on Friday the 13th.<\/p>\n<p>The whales were designed by Bill Brunson as a way to remember those lost during the attacks on our country on 9\/11\/2001.<\/p>\n<p>There are four whales named Glory, Hope, Faith and Grace. They&#8217;ve lived in Tallahassee since they were created, but now are moving to Panacea.<\/p>\n<p>This is a multi-group project to achieve, with the lab, the landowner, Fielder Tree Service, landscape architects and more.<\/p>\n<p>The lab is accepting donations for the move if you wish to donate.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Instagram <\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WAKULLA COUNTY, FL (WTXL) \u2014 The 9\/11 whales will be migrating to a new home closer to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[158265,175765,509,175766,13937,175767,73116,38879,232,234,233,14151],"class_list":["post-453228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-9-11-memorial","tag-9-11-whales","tag-big-bend","tag-bill-brunson","tag-fielder-tree-service","tag-glory-hope-faith-and-grace","tag-gulf-specimen-marine-lab","tag-panacea","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-wakulla-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453228","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=453228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}