{"id":426635,"date":"2026-09-05T00:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T00:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/426635\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T00:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T00:54:18","slug":"west-texas-state-veterans-cemetery-dedicated-in-lubbock-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/426635\/","title":{"rendered":"West Texas State Veterans Cemetery dedicated in Lubbock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; City and state leaders dedicated the West Texas State Veterans Cemetery on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham joined city and county leaders, along with Lubbock\u2019s state senate and house representatives, to cut the ribbon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Together, they dedicated the cemetery to the heroes who will be laid to rest there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The cemetery will serve more than 21,000 veterans and their family members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It is also part of the national Purple Heart Trail, which honors service members wounded in the line of duty.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; City and state leaders dedicated the West Texas State Veterans Cemetery on Friday morning.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-426635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426635","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=426635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}