{"id":175896,"date":"2026-02-22T23:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/175896\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T23:47:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:47:06","slug":"el-paso-honors-amigo-man-marking-his-50th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/175896\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso honors Amigo Man marking his 50th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso\u2019s longtime goodwill ambassador, Amigo Man, was honored with a public celebration marking his 50th birthday, including a press conference, the reveal of a commemorative installation, and other festivities downtown.<\/p>\n<p>The event happened on Thursday at the Downtown El Paso Visitor Center, 1 Civic Center Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say Amigo Man has served for 50 years as a symbol of El Paso\u2019s welcoming spirit, culture and community pride. <\/p>\n<p>The celebration highlighted his five decades of impact on tourism, community events and cultural celebrations across the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso\u2019s longtime goodwill ambassador, Amigo Man, was honored with a public celebration&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-175896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}