{"id":1476794,"date":"2026-02-01T10:30:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1476794"},"modified":"2026-02-03T03:31:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:31:29","slug":"troup-isd-mourns-student-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1476794","title":{"rendered":"6th grade student dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/02\/easton-200x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1476795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/02\/easton-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/02\/easton-350x350.png 350w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/02\/easton.png 409w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>TROUP \u2013 Troup ISD is in mourning this week after announcing that Troup ISD 6th grade student Easton Roper has died. According to our news partner KETK, school officials  said counselors will be available to support students who need someone to talk to at Troup Middle School on Monday. The district also encouraged families to talk with their children and to contact the school if they need any extra support.<\/p>\n<p>Donations for Roper\u2019s family can be made to the Autry Funeral Home in Jacksonville or at Troup Middle School. The district said they\u2019ll share information about Roper\u2019s funeral services when they can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROUP \u2013 Troup ISD is in mourning this week after announcing that Troup ISD 6th grade student Easton Roper has died. According to our news partner KETK, school officials said counselors will be available to support students who need someone to talk to at Troup Middle School on Monday. The district also encouraged families to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1476794\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">6th grade student dies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1476795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/02\/easton-200x200.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1476794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 22:26:52","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\/2026\/02\/easton-200x200.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476794","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1476794"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477069,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476794\/revisions\/1477069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1476795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1476794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1476794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1476794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}