{"id":55221,"date":"2022-09-29T01:20:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T05:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=55221"},"modified":"2022-09-29T01:20:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T05:20:34","slug":"central-massachusetts-native-riding-out-hurricane-ian-in-lehigh-acres-fl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/09\/central-massachusetts-native-riding-out-hurricane-ian-in-lehigh-acres-fl\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Massachusetts native riding out Hurricane Ian in Lehigh Acres Fl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Central Massachusetts native Steve Balestrieri now lives in Lehigh Acres Florida and is near the middle of Hurricane Ian&#8217;s path.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/76397_1459084681772_394015_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55222\" width=\"179\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/76397_1459084681772_394015_n.jpg 414w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/76397_1459084681772_394015_n-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><figcaption>Steve Balestrieri <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Balestrieri moved to Florida two years ago. He said he&#8217;s experienced hurricanes in North and South Carolina and in Honduras as a Green Beret in the Army, but this is the hardest-hitting one yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;And now we&#8217;re here, we&#8217;re being hit by the eye wall outer ring,&#8221; Balestrieri said Wednesday afternoon. &#8220;The wind gusts, we&#8217;ve had a couple of 90 miles per hour here. The sustained winds are very high. There are trees down all over the place.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central Massachusetts native Steve Balestrieri now lives in Lehigh Acres Florida and is near the middle of Hurricane Ian&#8217;s path. Balestrieri moved to Florida two years ago. He said he&#8217;s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":55222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1716],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55223,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55221\/revisions\/55223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}