{"id":41811,"date":"2026-11-01T16:26:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T21:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=41811"},"modified":"2026-11-01T16:26:24","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T21:26:24","slug":"ted-l-ellis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/01\/ted-l-ellis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted L. Ellis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ted L. Ellis, longtime serving mayor of Bluffton, 79, passed away on Sunday morning, November 1, 2026, at Christian Care Retirement Community in Bluffton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ted-ellis-1793528110.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41812\" style=\"width:313px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ted-ellis-1793528110.jpg?w=896&amp;ssl=1 896w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ted-ellis-1793528110.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ted-ellis-1793528110.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ted-ellis-1793528110.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Funeral arrangements are currently pending with the Thoma\/Rich, Lemler Funeral Home in Bluffton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted L. Ellis, longtime serving mayor of Bluffton, 79, passed away on Sunday morning, November 1, 2026, at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-41811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-obit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41811","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=41811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41813,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41811\/revisions\/41813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}