{"id":367507,"date":"2015-06-24T18:36:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T23:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=367507"},"modified":"2015-06-25T17:15:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T22:15:09","slug":"hawkins-mayor-fire-apparently-prompted-by-religious-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=367507","title":{"rendered":"Hawkins Mayor: Fire Apparently Prompted by Religious Sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/06\/62c171daa44e487fa31abdeacaac3b5a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/06\/62c171daa44e487fa31abdeacaac3b5a-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"62c171daa44e487fa31abdeacaac3b5a\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-362709\" \/><\/a>HAWKINS &#8212; The Wood County fire marshal is investigating a possible arson case in Hawkins involving Mayor Will Rogers &#8212; and possibly a controversial religious sign.  According to KETK, around 2:30 Wednesday morning, Rogers got a phone call saying that his coffee shop was on fire. Luckily, most of the damage was done to a small building behind the coffee shop, where workers cook and sort a lot of their food.  Rogers says firefighters got to the scene quickly and were able to put it out almost immediately.   Rogers says security video shows a white truck driving up and a man throwing something at the building. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Rogers believes his business was targeted by people angry over the controversial sign saying, &#8220;Jesus Welcomes You to Hawkins,&#8221; which stands just east of his shop.   Rogers says, &#8220;When you see that sign, it&#8217;s gotta be like a dagger to you, and that&#8217;s what&#8217;s goin&#8217; around there &#8212; hatred&#8230;it&#8217;s all over our world.   It&#8217;s the hate they have in their hearts &#8212; and&#8230;the only one that can change that&#8217;s Jesus.  So that&#8217;s whay that sign is so important.&#8221;   Several members of the community have placed smaller versions of the sign outside their homes to show support.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAWKINS &#8212; The Wood County fire marshal is investigating a possible arson case in Hawkins involving Mayor Will Rogers &#8212; and possibly a controversial religious sign. According to KETK, around 2:30 Wednesday morning, Rogers got a phone call saying that his coffee shop was on fire. Luckily, most of the damage was done to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=367507\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hawkins Mayor: Fire Apparently Prompted by Religious Sign<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":362709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-16 02:06:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367507","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367508,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367507\/revisions\/367508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/362709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}