{"id":35253,"date":"2026-03-19T08:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=35253"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:57:09","slug":"city-champs-celebration-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/city-champs-celebration-delayed\/","title":{"rendered":"City champs celebration delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The City of Decatur&#8217;s planned recognition of Bellmont High School&#8217;s state championship has been delayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayor Dan Rickord said at Tuesday night&#8217;s city council meeting that several members of the team had planned activities and so not all members would have been able to attend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scheumann_Photography-100-193-1.jpg?resize=640%2C960&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scheumann_Photography-100-193-1-scaled.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scheumann_Photography-100-193-1-scaled.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scheumann_Photography-100-193-1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scheumann_Photography-100-193-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scheumann_Photography-100-193-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1365%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1365w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scheumann_Photography-100-193-1-scaled.jpg?w=1707&amp;ssl=1 1707w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scheumann_Photography-100-193-1-scaled.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rickord said city officials will try again to honor the champs at the next council meeting, on Tuesday, April 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A community celebration for Coach Andy Heim and the team was held March 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com The City of Decatur&#8217;s planned recognition of Bellmont High School&#8217;s state championship has been<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,15,21],"class_list":["post-35253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_1040-scaled.jpg?fit=1707%2C2560&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35255,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35253\/revisions\/35255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}