{"id":38683,"date":"2025-07-12T10:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T14:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/12\/sheriff-candidates-face-off-in-heated-public-forum-ahead-of-special-election\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T10:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T14:15:07","slug":"sheriff-candidates-face-off-in-heated-public-forum-ahead-of-special-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/12\/sheriff-candidates-face-off-in-heated-public-forum-ahead-of-special-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff Candidates Face Off in Heated Public Forum Ahead of Special Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lCP_ho9FjJY?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>A sheriff\u2019s race is heating up in one South Carolina county as candidates lay out their vision for law enforcement reform and community safety. Following a high-profile resignation, voters had the chance to hear directly from nearly every candidate in a public forum. <\/p>\n<p>Topics ranged from improving department culture and tackling crime, to upholding constitutional rights and modernizing the sheriff&#8217;s office. The special election is set for August, and voters are preparing to make a critical choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sheriff\u2019s race is heating up in one South Carolina county as candidates lay out their vision for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":38684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upstate-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}