{"id":565226,"date":"2016-12-07T14:27:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T20:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=565226"},"modified":"2016-12-08T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T20:27:00","slug":"longview-fire-stations-christmas-cross-comes-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=565226","title":{"rendered":"Longview Fire Station&#8217;s Christmas Cross Comes Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/fire-dept-longview-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/fire-dept-longview-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-529635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/fire-dept-longview-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/fire-dept-longview-1-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/fire-dept-longview-1-447x450.jpg 447w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/fire-dept-longview-1.jpg 506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW &#8211; A protest has caused the Longview Fire Department to remove a cross from in front of a fire station. The cross went up at Station 6 last year along with the Christmas lights. But after complaints, the cross has come down this year. Longview Spokesman Shawn Hara told KETK, &#8220;displays that are religious of nature that are placed on public property face challenges, so our  practice is that we don&#8217;t do that.&#8221; But today, there is still a cross in front of the fire station. A family across the street from the fire station put one up. They said they did it  to show that they appreciate what the fire department does for the community. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8211; A protest has caused the Longview Fire Department to remove a cross from in front of a fire station. The cross went up at Station 6 last year along with the Christmas lights. But after complaints, the cross has come down this year. Longview Spokesman Shawn Hara told KETK, &#8220;displays that are religious &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=565226\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longview Fire Station&#8217;s Christmas Cross Comes Down<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":529635,"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-565226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 03:36:22","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\/565226","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=565226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565227,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565226\/revisions\/565227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/529635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=565226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=565226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=565226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}