{"id":41030,"date":"2025-09-17T14:31:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T18:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/graveyard-thieves-target-cemetery-in-laurens-county-vases-stolen-twice-in-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T14:31:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T18:31:27","slug":"graveyard-thieves-target-cemetery-in-laurens-county-vases-stolen-twice-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/graveyard-thieves-target-cemetery-in-laurens-county-vases-stolen-twice-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Graveyard Thieves Target Cemetery in Laurens County \u2014 Vases Stolen Twice in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ycHk20oaIlQ?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Police are investigating after bronze vases were stolen from gravesites at Westview Memorial Park in Laurens County, SC \u2014 for the second time this year.<\/p>\n<p>Cemetery owner Robin Thomason says nine vases were stolen over the weekend, following a similar theft of seven vases in April. The vases are believed to have scrap value, but to families, they hold deep emotional significance.<\/p>\n<p>Thomason has filed a report with the Laurens County Sheriff&#8217;s Office and is adding new cameras to prevent future thefts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating after bronze vases were stolen from gravesites at Westview Memorial Park in Laurens County, SC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":41031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41030","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\/41030","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=41030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}