{"id":1136534,"date":"2022-06-17T10:39:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T15:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1136534"},"modified":"2022-06-20T11:39:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T16:39:15","slug":"east-texans-observe-juneteenth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1136534","title":{"rendered":"East Texans observe Juneteenth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/06\/juneteenth.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"148\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1136536\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/06\/junneteenthlv-175x102.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"102\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1136565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/06\/junneteenthlv-175x102.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/06\/junneteenthlv.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/> EAST TEXAS &#8212; Both Tyler and Longview have scheduled activities to honor Juneteenth &#8212; officially June 19 and now a national holiday. It marks the day in 1865 when Texans learned the slaves had been freed, and celebrations have spread to other states over the years. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityoftyler.org\/Home\/Components\/News\/News\/2305\/\">here<\/a> to see the city&#8217;s schedule for Monday, June 20, when all non-essential city offices will be closed. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longviewtexas.gov\/civicalerts.aspx?AID=3695\">this link<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/06192020longview\/\">this link<\/a> for similar information about what&#8217;s planned in Longview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS &#8212; Both Tyler and Longview have scheduled activities to honor Juneteenth &#8212; officially June 19 and now a national holiday. It marks the day in 1865 when Texans learned the slaves had been freed, and celebrations have spread to other states over the years. Click here to see the city&#8217;s schedule for Monday, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1136534\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Texans observe Juneteenth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1136587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/06\/juneteenth.png","fifu_image_alt":"East Texans observe Juneteenth","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1136534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 15:19:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/06\/juneteenth.png","fifu_image_alt":"East Texans observe Juneteenth","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1136534"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1137007,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136534\/revisions\/1137007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1136587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1136534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1136534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1136534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}