{"id":419717,"date":"2026-08-29T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/419717\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T00:30:09","slug":"arlington-family-asks-for-return-of-sentimental-tin-man-yard-decoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/419717\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlington family asks for return of sentimental &#8220;Tin Man&#8221; yard decoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/arlington\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arlington family <\/a>is asking for help finding a &#8220;Tin Man&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">yard decoration that was recently taken from their front yard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The decoration has little monetary value, but it carries significant meaning for 11-year-old Elliott and his family.<\/p>\n<p>A photo shows Elliott with the &#8220;Tin Man&#8221; when he was 2 years old. The decoration was a gift from his great-grandmother and has been part of the family for years.<\/p>\n<p>Elliott&#8217;s nickname is &#8220;Tin Man&#8221; because he was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a congenital heart condition in which the left side of the heart does not develop properly.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mike.png#.png\" alt=\"mike.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>His mother says the family simply wants the decoration returned.<\/p>\n<p>While the &#8220;Tin Man&#8221; may not be worth much money, she says its sentimental value to Elliott and their family is priceless.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Arlington family is asking for help finding a &#8220;Tin Man&#8221; yard decoration that was recently taken from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,294,430,27],"class_list":["post-419717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-crime","tag-north-texas","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}