{"id":48606,"date":"2025-11-13T22:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T22:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/48606\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T22:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T22:32:12","slug":"opening-of-west-texas-state-veterans-cemetery-postponed-due-to-construction-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/48606\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening of West Texas State Veterans Cemetery postponed due to construction delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The West Texas State Veterans Cemetery, originally expected to open on December 12th, will have its opening delayed \u201cdue to construction delays beyond our control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Organizers with the Texas Veterans Land Board made the announcement on Thursday afternoon, saying they are \u201cworking diligently with our contractors to address the delays\u201d and that they \u201clook forward to serving over 21,000 Veterans and their families as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">John Kelley with the TVLB acknowledged the effort required <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/08\/14\/date-announced-opening-west-texas-state-veterans-cemetery\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/08\/14\/date-announced-opening-west-texas-state-veterans-cemetery\/\">when the original date was announced<\/a> back in August, saying \u201cIt\u2019s exciting to know it\u2019s coming soon, but on the other side of that sword is oh my god we got a lot left to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">We\u2019ll continue to update this story as we learn more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The West Texas State Veterans Cemetery, originally expected to open on December 12th, will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-48606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48606","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=48606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}