{"id":173506,"date":"2025-08-25T05:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/173506\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T05:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:07:11","slug":"mission-concepcion-vandalized-community-reacts-with-sadness-and-frustration-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/173506\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Concepcion vandalized, community reacts with sadness and frustration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Community members are expressing their dismay after vandals targeted one of San Antonio&#8217;s most iconic landmarks, Mission Concepcion. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the National Park Service reported that vandals threw several boulders through the mission&#8217;s wooden door and stole a device used to determine moisture levels inside.<\/p>\n<p>Following a mass today, both community members and visitors voiced their sadness and frustration over the incident.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED | <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/thieves-damage-historic-convento-at-mission-concepcion-steal-preservation-tools-vandalism-park-rangers-local#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/thieves-damage-historic-convento-at-mission-concepcion-steal-preservation-tools-vandalism-park-rangers-local#\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Thieves damage historic convento at Mission Concepci\u00f3n, steal preservation tools<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no need for it. I think if anybody came for help, they wouldn&#8217;t be turned away,&#8221; one community member said.<\/p>\n<p>Another added, &#8220;You put the house of God on there, and then still want to go against that. I feel like this is a lack of respect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to see something like that, or hear about that,&#8221; said another individual. &#8220;The idea that these buildings have been around for a long time, it&#8217;s a testament to people&#8217;s resolve through hard things. Yeah, it&#8217;s unfortunate. It&#8217;s sad. I don&#8217;t know what their goal was or what they were trying to accomplish. But just leave things alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Service investigators are urging anyone with information about the vandalism to contact them by phone, email, or online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Community members are expressing their dismay after vandals targeted one of San Antonio&#8217;s most iconic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":173507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-173506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115087674172033387","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}