{"id":44347,"date":"2026-01-07T23:19:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/cherokee-co-ambulance-contract-coming-to-an-end-whats-next\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T23:19:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:19:29","slug":"cherokee-co-ambulance-contract-coming-to-an-end-whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/cherokee-co-ambulance-contract-coming-to-an-end-whats-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherokee Co. ambulance contract coming to an end: What&#8217;s next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YZX1OGU2ZaA?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Cherokee County Council voted Monday night to begin the process of ending its contract with Thorne Ambulance Service \u2014 taking the first step toward the county eventually operating its own EMS system.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cherokee County Council voted Monday night to begin the process of ending its contract with Thorne Ambulance Service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":44348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44347","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\/44347","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=44347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}