{"id":18798,"date":"2022-10-05T01:05:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T01:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=18798"},"modified":"2022-10-04T20:07:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T20:07:33","slug":"new-meadows-holds-vigil-for-slain-valley-couple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/05\/new-meadows-holds-vigil-for-slain-valley-couple\/","title":{"rendered":"New Meadows Holds Vigil For Slain Valley Couple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A\u00a0 former Wood River Valley resident and his wife, murdered at a New Meadows inn on Saturday, have been identified. The Adams County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said the victims of Saturday&#8217;s shooting were the owners of the Hartland Inn\u2014Sara and Rory Mehen of New Meadows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The news appears to have impacted folks speaking up across social media, in local establishments, and across the state. One longtime friend and also a former Valley resident, Mark Oliver, said this:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhat happened this weekend has shook so many communities across Idaho and beyond. Our snow, skate, Boise, New Meadows, Sun Valley\u2026 and so many friends and family in between\u2026 are hurting. There really are no words that make this hurt any less or feel like such a devastating loss of two great people,\u201d Oliver said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The City of New Meadows on Tuesday night hosted a vigil for the couple. An investigation is ongoing.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0 former Wood River Valley resident and his wife, murdered at a New Meadows inn on Saturday, have been identified. The Adams County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said the victims of Saturday&#8217;s shooting were the owners of the Hartland Inn\u2014Sara and Rory Mehen of New Meadows. The news appears to have impacted folks speaking up across social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,84,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-crime","category-in-brief","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18800,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18798\/revisions\/18800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}