{"id":7239,"date":"2020-04-24T20:23:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T00:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=7239"},"modified":"2020-04-24T20:23:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T00:23:40","slug":"lakelands-confederate-monument-case-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2020\/04\/24\/lakelands-confederate-monument-case-dismissed\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland\u2019s Confederate monument case dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/munn_park_confederate_6-22_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7240\" width=\"225\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/munn_park_confederate_6-22_0.jpg 720w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/munn_park_confederate_6-22_0-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Courthouse News Service; Lakeland\u2019s Confederate monument was moved from Munn Park to Veterans Park more than a year ago, but the legal battle over the move is still being fought in federal court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Organizations that opposed the move went to court last year to have the 110-year-old monument returned on free-speech grounds; a federal judge dismissed the case, but the organizations filed an appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Lakeland_Confederate_monument_to_move_to_2_41972948_ver1.0-1-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7242\" width=\"217\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Lakeland_Confederate_monument_to_move_to_2_41972948_ver1.0-1-1.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Lakeland_Confederate_monument_to_move_to_2_41972948_ver1.0-1-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Lakeland_Confederate_monument_to_move_to_2_41972948_ver1.0-1-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Lakeland_Confederate_monument_to_move_to_2_41972948_ver1.0-1-1-768x432.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Atlanta-based panel of appeals heard the case Thursday, and they \u201cappeared skeptical of the Confederate heritage advocates\u2019 First Amendment claims,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Courthouse News Service; Lakeland\u2019s Confederate monument was moved from Munn Park to Veterans Park more than a year ago, but the legal battle over the move is&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}