{"id":289670,"date":"2011-05-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/a-blessed-rally-roars-up-to-mount-soledad\/"},"modified":"2011-05-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T07:00:00","slug":"a-blessed-rally-roars-up-to-mount-soledad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/a-blessed-rally-roars-up-to-mount-soledad\/","title":{"rendered":"A blessed rally roars up to Mount Soledad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 400 bikers gathered at the Mount Soledad Veterans Memorial on May 15 for a &#8220;Blessing of the Bikes&#8221; event to commemorate the start of riding season, celebrate the annual Memorial Day &#8220;Run for the Wall&#8221; ride to the Washington, D.C. Vietnam War Memorial and show support for keeping the Mount Soledad cross on site. &#8220;Traditionally, this is the time of year when we have the blessing of the bikes and this is such a wonderful and appropriate place to gather,&#8221; said event MC and San Diego Harley-Davidson owner New York Myke. &#8220;It&#8217;s a unique memorial, there are a lot of veterans involved and we have never done it here before. It has spiritual significance and I love this place.&#8221; Guest pastors at the event were Jim Garlow (senior pastor of Skyline Church in La Mesa), Pastor Z (of Bikers for Christ International Motorcycle Ministry) and Mike Quinn (Tierrasanta\u2019s Newbreak Church). <iframe data-src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/likebox.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fljvillagenews&amp;width=292&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;show_faces=true&amp;stream=true&amp;header=true&amp;height=427\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:292px; height:427px;\" allowtransparency=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 400 bikers gathered at the Mount Soledad Veterans Memorial on May 15 for a &#8220;Blessing of the Bikes&#8221; event to commemorate the start of riding season, celebrate the annual Memorial Day &#8220;Run for the Wall&#8221; ride to the Washington, D.C. Vietnam War Memorial and show support for keeping the Mount Soledad cross on [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":289671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11560","_seopress_titles_title":"A blessed rally roars up to Mount Soledad","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11560,11551],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-la-jolla-village-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}