{"id":183572,"date":"2012-04-25T08:37:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T13:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=183572"},"modified":"2012-04-26T09:29:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T14:29:52","slug":"pastor-suspended-after-dwi-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=183572","title":{"rendered":"Pastor Suspended after DWI Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=183576\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-183576\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/04\/John-Logan-Matkin.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"John Logan Matkin\" width=\"148\" height=\"129\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-183576\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW \u2014 The senior pastor of one of Longview\u2019s oldest and largest churches has been suspended from duties after being arrested on a drunken driving charge. According to the Longview News-Journal, John Logan \u201cJack\u201d Matkin, pastor of Longview First United Methodist Church, was arrested April 19 in Smith County. He was released later in the day after posting $500 bond. 56-year-old Matkin has served as senior pastor of the church for the past two years, said Ed Moore, acting as spokesman for the church. <\/p>\n<p>As chairman of the church administrative counsel, Moore said he and two other church lay leaders were told of the arrest April 19 by a representative of the bishop\u2019s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2014 The senior pastor of one of Longview\u2019s oldest and largest churches has been suspended from duties after being arrested on a drunken driving charge. According to the Longview News-Journal, John Logan \u201cJack\u201d Matkin, pastor of Longview First United Methodist Church, was arrested April 19 in Smith County. He was released later in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=183572\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pastor Suspended after DWI Arrest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 02:31:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183572","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183572"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183957,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183572\/revisions\/183957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}