{"id":316407,"date":"2026-10-28T22:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T22:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/316407\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T22:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T22:40:06","slug":"former-bethlehem-firefighter-honored-at-annual-memorial-service-bethlehem-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/316407\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Bethlehem firefighter honored at annual memorial service | Bethlehem Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; A former Bethlehem firefighter is being remembered for his service to both his community and his country.<\/p>\n<p>The city&#8217;s fire department held its annual memorial service Wednesday at Memorial Fire Station on West Broad Street.<\/p>\n<p>Special honors went to James Joseph Kniha, who died earlier this month at age 95. Kniha served in the US Army in Korea in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>Later in life, he joined the Bethlehem Fire Department, where he served as a firefighter for 27 years before retiring in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>\nCopyright 2026 Maranatha Broadcasting Co., Inc.. All Rights Reserved.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; A former Bethlehem firefighter is being remembered for his service to both his community and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,1391],"class_list":["post-316407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316407","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=316407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}