{"id":59,"date":"2009-10-15T15:30:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T15:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/2009\/10\/15\/passing-of-firefighteremt-john-balben\/"},"modified":"2009-10-15T15:30:53","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T15:30:53","slug":"passing-of-firefighteremt-john-balben","status":"public-archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/2009\/10\/15\/passing-of-firefighteremt-john-balben\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing of Firefighter\/EMT John Balben"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Sudbury Fire Chief Kenneth J. MacLean regrets to announce the unexpected passing of John C. Balben (&#8220;Jack&#8221;)&nbsp;on Thursday.&nbsp; Jack was a 23 year veteran of the Sudbury Fire Department and leaves a wife, daughter, and three sons.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Funeral arrangements are as follows:&nbsp; <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Visitations will be held on Sunday, October 18, 2009 from 4:00 to 8:00 pm in the Bryant Memorial Chapel of the John C. Bryant Funeral Home, 56 Pemberton Road (off Route 30), Cochituate.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>His funeral Mass will be celebrated on Monday, October 19, 2009 at 10:00 am at St. Ann&#8217;s Parish, Route 27, Wayland.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Interment will follow in the Balben family lot in Cochituate.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The full announcement can be found at <A href=\"http:\/\/www.currentobituary.com\/Memory.aspx?Memory_ObitdID=70055\">http:\/\/www.currentobituary.com\/Memory.aspx?Memory_ObitdID=70055<\/A>.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visitation and funeral arrangements are posted. <a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/2009\/10\/15\/passing-of-firefighteremt-john-balben\/\" aria-label=\"Read full article about Passing of Firefighter\/EMT John Balben\">Read full article<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}