{"id":186178,"date":"2012-05-04T17:06:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T22:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=186178"},"modified":"2012-05-06T07:53:20","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T12:53:20","slug":"gawtp-endorses-larry-smith-for-sheriff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=186178","title":{"rendered":"GAWTP Endorses Larry Smith for Sheriff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=186179\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-186179\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/05\/larry_smith-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"larry_smith\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-186179\" \/><\/a>SMITH COUNTY \u2013 By a unanimous vote of its board of directors, Grassroots America &#8211; We the People endorses Larry Smith for Smith County sheriff.  Smith is a veteran of 34 years in law enforcement.  According to a statement from the citizen group, &#8220;Smith understands that to run a law enforcement agency successfully, he must provide consistent leadership and high standards, the right tools, and the right training for his people. The fact that he has &#8216;walked in the shoes of the men and women&#8217; we depend upon for safety, security, and justice convinced us he understands how to lead a group of public servants who willingly put their lives on the line every day.&#8221;  Smith faces Bobby Garmon, Chris Green, and Donn Rust in the May 29 GOP primary.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY \u2013 By a unanimous vote of its board of directors, Grassroots America &#8211; We the People endorses Larry Smith for Smith County sheriff. Smith is a veteran of 34 years in law enforcement. According to a statement from the citizen group, &#8220;Smith understands that to run a law enforcement agency successfully, he must &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=186178\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GAWTP Endorses Larry Smith for Sheriff<\/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-186178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 05:18:24","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\/186178","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=186178"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186322,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186178\/revisions\/186322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}