{"id":1249836,"date":"2023-08-08T09:23:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T14:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1249836"},"modified":"2023-08-09T20:57:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T01:57:05","slug":"tyler-junior-college-mourns-death-of-athletic-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1249836","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Junior College mourns death of athletic director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1249837\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/08\/TJCATHLETICDIR-173x175.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/08\/TJCATHLETICDIR-173x175.png 173w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/08\/TJCATHLETICDIR.png 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 173px) 100vw, 173px\" \/>TYLER &#8212; Tyler Junior College said on Tuesday that they are mourning the death of their athletic director. According to our news partner KETK, officials with the college said Athletic Director Kevin Vest had lost a lengthy battle with melanoma. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our prayers are with his family and all of the lives he touched during his illustrious career,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d officials said. Vest was the fifth athletic director in TJC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 92-year history, and came from Waubonsee Community College in Illinois in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Tyler Junior College said on Tuesday that they are mourning the death of their athletic director. According to our news partner KETK, officials with the college said Athletic Director Kevin Vest had lost a lengthy battle with melanoma. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our prayers are with his family and all of the lives he touched during his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1249836\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tyler Junior College mourns death of athletic director<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1249839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/08\/TJCATHLETICDIR-173x175.png","fifu_image_alt":"Tyler Junior College mourns death of athletic director","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1249836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 17:03:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/08\/TJCATHLETICDIR-173x175.png","fifu_image_alt":"Tyler Junior College mourns death of athletic director","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1249836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1249838,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249836\/revisions\/1249838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1249839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1249836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1249836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1249836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}