{"id":82930,"date":"2025-10-16T20:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/82930\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T20:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:35:09","slug":"te-puke-father-asks-for-help-finding-stolen-cemetery-ornaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/82930\/","title":{"rendered":"Te Puke father asks for help finding stolen cemetery ornaments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">The deer and fawn had recently been cleaned up and repainted by Schwass and two of his granddaughters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cSomeone may have seen them in someone\u2019s garden. They are not in the cemetery or on another grave,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">The grave is in the children\u2019s section of the cemetery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">He said the ornaments were of sentimental value to the family and it was upsetting they had disappeared. <\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">Schwass said if they have been taken, then \u201cI just think it\u2019s a bit low\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">Anyone who may have seen the ornaments can get in touch with the family via email: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/bay-of-plenty-times\/news\/te-puke-father-asks-for-help-finding-stolen-cemetery-ornaments\/HCD6LVTG2JGURMFZYG6SMU5OSU\/mailto:donschwass8@gmail.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">donschwass8@gmail.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The deer and fawn had recently been cleaned up and repainted by Schwass and two of his granddaughters.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31036,49124,2209,2949,2082,5838,111,43,139,69,63605,46601,4736,8690],"class_list":["post-82930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-asks","tag-cemetery","tag-father","tag-finding","tag-for","tag-help","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-ornaments","tag-puke","tag-stolen","tag-te"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}