{"id":41542,"date":"2025-10-01T11:30:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/10\/01\/lawsuit-filed-over-removal-of-spartanburg-clock-tower\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T11:30:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:30:01","slug":"lawsuit-filed-over-removal-of-spartanburg-clock-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/10\/01\/lawsuit-filed-over-removal-of-spartanburg-clock-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit Filed Over Removal of Spartanburg Clock Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2PQyrcT07ME?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>City Council is now facing a lawsuit after crews began dismantling the iconic downtown clock tower. A group called Support the Spartanburg Clock Tower and other plaintiffs claim the removal violates South Carolina\u2019s Heritage Act, which protects certain historical monuments. The lawsuit argues the clock tower, built in 1976 as part of the bicentennial committee\u2019s efforts, qualifies for protection. The legal action demands all removal work be halted immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City Council is now facing a lawsuit after crews began dismantling the iconic downtown clock tower. A group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":41543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41542","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\/41542","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=41542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}