{"id":40344,"date":"2025-08-28T10:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T14:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/28\/grave-concerns-legal-fight-over-enslaved-burial-grounds-blocks-sc-development\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T10:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T14:15:14","slug":"grave-concerns-legal-fight-over-enslaved-burial-grounds-blocks-sc-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/28\/grave-concerns-legal-fight-over-enslaved-burial-grounds-blocks-sc-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Grave Concerns: Legal Fight Over Enslaved Burial Grounds Blocks SC Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/seKDDvBn5yo?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>A long legal battle has resurfaced in Anderson County as residents push to protect suspected graves of enslaved individuals discovered on the former Rivoli plantation. Community members fear future development may disturb the burial sites. A judge previously dismissed the case, but now an appeal is underway. The developers sought a $7.5 million bond, which was denied. The future of the site\u2014and its history\u2014hangs in the balance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long legal battle has resurfaced in Anderson County as residents push to protect suspected graves of enslaved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":40345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40344","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\/40344","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=40344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}