{"id":786376,"date":"2026-05-10T11:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T11:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/786376\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T11:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T11:03:12","slug":"eight-murdered-children-mourned-at-mass-funeral-that-captured-national-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/786376\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight murdered children mourned at mass funeral that captured national attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"3HE5RBHSWFHQLBS5MDSFWBILSY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">SHREVEPORT, La. \u2014 Seven hearses pulled up to the church under gray skies Saturday morning, and workers unloaded the eight caskets, two of them so small they could ride together.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"H2MHH6W77VEOXD4GMKK3CABAAM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">It was a moment the battered city in northwest Louisiana had been girding itself for ever since the frantic morning last month when the despondent father of seven of the children methodically shot them in their bedrooms. The killings of so many children \u2014 the youngest just 3 and the oldest 11 \u2014 shocked the country and brought attention to the plight of the three mothers badly injured in the attack who survived only to face the agony of losing nearly every one of their children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHREVEPORT, La. \u2014 Seven hearses pulled up to the church under gray skies Saturday morning, and workers unloaded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":786377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[50,263493,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-786376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-partner-exclude","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786376","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=786376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}