{"id":1443813,"date":"2025-09-20T22:15:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T03:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1443813"},"modified":"2025-09-22T16:18:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:18:27","slug":"community-mourns-charlie-kirk-at-athens-vigil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1443813","title":{"rendered":"Community mourns Charlie Kirk at Athens vigil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/2025-09-20_221444-201x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1443814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/2025-09-20_221444-201x200.jpg 201w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/2025-09-20_221444.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/>ATHENS \u2013 Ahead of Charlie Kirk\u2019s memorial service in Arizona on Sunday, many East Texans gathered together in Athens to mourn the conservative political speaker, who was killed in Utah on Sept. 10. According to our new partner KETK, many people spoke, prayed and participated in a moment of silence at a vigil in Kirk\u2019s honor in downtown Athens on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>A similar event was held by residents of Palestine on Wednesday night. Another vigil will be held in Tyler\u2019s Bergfeld Park from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday. Kirk\u2019s memorial service will be held on Sunday at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS \u2013 Ahead of Charlie Kirk\u2019s memorial service in Arizona on Sunday, many East Texans gathered together in Athens to mourn the conservative political speaker, who was killed in Utah on Sept. 10. According to our new partner KETK, many people spoke, prayed and participated in a moment of silence at a vigil in Kirk\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1443813\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Community mourns Charlie Kirk at Athens vigil<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1444121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/2025-09-20_221444-201x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1443813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 22:28:13","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\/2025\/09\/2025-09-20_221444-201x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443813","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1443813"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443959,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443813\/revisions\/1443959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1444121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1443813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1443813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1443813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}