{"id":178959,"date":"2026-04-29T05:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178959\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T05:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:15:10","slug":"music-for-veterans-peace-through-music-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178959\/","title":{"rendered":"Music for Veterans: \u201cPeace Through Music\u201d | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Music for Veterans, a local nonprofit organization, is providing &#8220;a peaceful retreat&#8221; for our veterans.<\/p>\n<p>Every Tuesday night at the Salvation Army on Liberty Street in downtown Erie, local veterans all meet and practice playing their music.<\/p>\n<p>Vinny Stefanelli, director of Music for Veterans, comes from a family of veterans and explained that he has always wanted to give back to veterans, especially ones that suffer from PTSD.<\/p>\n<p>15 years later and Stefanelli has noticed that as good as the music is maybe the real camaraderie comes in between the songs being played.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Music for Veterans, a local nonprofit organization, is providing &#8220;a peaceful retreat&#8221; for our veterans. Every Tuesday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,296,139],"class_list":["post-178959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-local","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}