{"id":179,"date":"2009-09-08T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T20:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=179"},"modified":"2009-09-08T13:24:28","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T21:24:28","slug":"911-ride-and-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"9\/11 Ride and Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>9\/11 is a day that no one ever forgets and anyone you ask will know exactly where they were at, and what they were doing\u00a0on that tragic day. Engineer Gary Biggerstaff of the Long Beach Fire Department (LBFD) has\u00a0conducted a memorial every year since that day, and will keep on doing so.<\/p>\n<p>This is an event that he and his family started on their own and each year, more and more people, and bikers show up. It begins with a bike ride to Cooks Corner, then\u00a0back to Long Beach, and ends at Gary&#8217;s house for a ceremonial display of camaraderie, and compassion for those who gave the ultimate sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>Over 400 bikes and up to 1000 people have filled his street in the past\u00a0to show their support . We thank Gary for all of his hard work and dedication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 9\/11 is a day that no one ever forgets and anyone you ask will know exactly where they were at, and what they were doing\u00a0on that tragic day. Engineer Gary Biggerstaff of the Long Beach Fire Department (LBFD) has\u00a0conducted a memorial every year since that day, and will keep on doing so. This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[75,76,78,77],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-75","tag-911-ride-motorcycle","tag-biggerstaff","tag-memorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}