{"id":1361257,"date":"2024-10-09T15:05:40","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T20:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1361257"},"modified":"2024-10-11T02:25:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T07:25:28","slug":"the-city-of-chandler-gets-purple-heart-designation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1361257","title":{"rendered":"The City of Chandler gets Purple Heart  designation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/10\/purple-heart-201x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1361259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/10\/purple-heart-201x200.jpg 201w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/10\/purple-heart-351x350.jpg 351w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/10\/purple-heart-768x765.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/10\/purple-heart.jpg 876w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/>CHANDLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c With Veterans Day coming in November, the City of Chandler was honored with the Purple Heart City designation. According to our news partner KETK, this is given to communities  that honor and recognize sacrifices of military personnel who were wounded or killed in combat. <\/p>\n<p> Mayor Cy Ditzler said there are many Chandler residents that are Purple Heart recipients. The city council will declare Nov. 11 as Purple Heart Day. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Each city that is designated, they put a sign on either end of town that declares them as a Purple Heart City,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ditzler said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153So that you recognize veterans that were injured or gave their lives in combat.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The Purple Heart is the oldest military decoration still in use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHANDLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c With Veterans Day coming in November, the City of Chandler was honored with the Purple Heart City designation. According to our news partner KETK, this is given to communities that honor and recognize sacrifices of military personnel who were wounded or killed in combat. Mayor Cy Ditzler said there are many Chandler residents &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1361257\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The City of Chandler gets Purple Heart  designation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1361264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/10\/purple-heart-201x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1361257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 13:51:59","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\/2024\/10\/purple-heart-201x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361257","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1361257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1361263,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361257\/revisions\/1361263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1361264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1361257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1361257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1361257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}