{"id":208098,"date":"2012-08-22T15:32:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T20:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=208098"},"modified":"2012-08-23T02:40:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T07:40:16","slug":"perry-picks-east-texan-as-next-state-historian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=208098","title":{"rendered":"Perry Picks East Texan as Next State Historian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=208125\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-208125\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/08\/Bill-ONeal21-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Bill O&#039;Neal2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-208125\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN (AP) &#8211; Gov. Rick Perry has appointed an East Texas author and junior college instructor as the new state historian.   Perry&#8217;s office said Wednesday that Bill O&#8217;Neal of Carthage is slated to serve in the post until Aug. 22, 2014.    O&#8217;Neal is a nonfiction author and history instructor at Panola College in Carthage. He is a member of the Texas State Historical Association and past president of the East Texas Historical Association.   O&#8217;Neal received bachelor&#8217;s and master&#8217;s degrees from East Texas State University, now known as Texas A&#038;M University-Commerce. He is a board member of the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame and former board president with the East Texas Medical Center Regional Healthcare System.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN (AP) &#8211; Gov. Rick Perry has appointed an East Texas author and junior college instructor as the new state historian. Perry&#8217;s office said Wednesday that Bill O&#8217;Neal of Carthage is slated to serve in the post until Aug. 22, 2014. O&#8217;Neal is a nonfiction author and history instructor at Panola College in Carthage. He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=208098\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Perry Picks East Texan as Next State Historian<\/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-208098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 10:56:27","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\/208098","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=208098"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208255,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208098\/revisions\/208255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}