{"id":49707,"date":"2021-07-14T15:02:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T19:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=49707"},"modified":"2021-07-14T15:02:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T19:02:24","slug":"george-floyd-mural-struck-by-lightning-crumbles-to-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/07\/george-floyd-mural-struck-by-lightning-crumbles-to-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"George Floyd Mural Struck by Lightning, Crumbles to the Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A mural of the late Black Lives Matter icon George Floyd has been struck by lightning and has collapsed. Eyewitnesses confirmed that nobody was near the mural when it was struck nor when its pieces fell to the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Toledo mural, completed in June 2020, was struck by lightning in the middle of the day on Tuesday, leaving a charred wall where Floyd\u2019s face was before. It was a direct hit; artwork to the left and right of the mural appeared unblemished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"544\" height=\"285\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GF-Mural.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GF-Mural.png 544w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GF-Mural-300x157.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mural of the late Black Lives Matter icon George Floyd has been struck by lightning and has collapsed. Eyewitnesses confirmed that nobody was near the mural when it was&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[503],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49709,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49707\/revisions\/49709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}