{"id":84,"date":"2026-08-06T01:32:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T01:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yourstateline.com\/staging\/2026\/08\/06\/what-belongs-in-local-news-and-updates\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T01:32:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T01:32:31","slug":"what-belongs-in-local-news-and-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourstateline.com\/staging\/2026\/08\/06\/what-belongs-in-local-news-and-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"What belongs in Local News &#038; Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local News &#038; Updates is for information that helps people understand something timely in the Stateline area.<\/p>\n<h2>Good examples<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Road closures, construction, or public-service changes<\/li>\n<li>School, park, library, or municipal announcements<\/li>\n<li>Openings, closures, and meaningful changes at local places<\/li>\n<li>Verified updates with a source link or clear firsthand context<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Before you post<\/h2>\n<p>Include where the update applies, when it was announced or observed, and a link to the original source when one exists. If something is unconfirmed, say so clearly rather than presenting it as settled fact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A simple standard for sharing timely information without turning the local feed into noise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourstateline.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourstateline.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourstateline.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourstateline.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourstateline.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yourstateline.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourstateline.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourstateline.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourstateline.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}