{"id":14251,"date":"2015-12-15T18:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T16:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=14251"},"modified":"2015-12-15T18:00:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T16:00:33","slug":"la-schools-shut-over-threat-640000-students-900-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/12\/15\/la-schools-shut-over-threat-640000-students-900-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"LA schools shut over &#8216;threat&#8217;: 640,000 students, 900 schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles schools have been closed as an unspecified threat is investigated, police have said.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for the Los Angeles police department confirmed that the Los Angeles Unified School District received a threat.<\/p>\n<p>Police could not confirm the validity or specificity of the threat, which sent school buses back from their routes to the depots.<\/p>\n<p>A schools spokesman said they were exercising &#8220;an abundance of caution&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Earlier this morning we did receive an electronic threat that mentions the safety of our schools,&#8221; said Steven Zipperman, chief of the Los Angeles school police department.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have chosen to close our schools today until we can be absolutely sure that our campuses are safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The district is the second largest in the US and has 640,000 students and more than 900 schools.<\/p>\n<p>The threat comes amid a heightened alert after 14 people were killed by a radicalised Muslim couple in San Bernardino, 60 miles east of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles schools have been closed as an unspecified threat is investigated, police have said. A spokeswoman for the Los Angeles police department confirmed that the Los Angeles Unified School District received a threat. Police could not confirm the validity or specificity of the threat, which sent school buses back from their routes to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}