{"id":230191,"date":"2012-12-17T10:39:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T16:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=230191"},"modified":"2012-12-18T10:48:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T16:48:50","slug":"east-texas-soldier-killed-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=230191","title":{"rendered":"East Texas Soldier Killed in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=230192\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-230192\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/12\/NELSON-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"NELSON\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-230192\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN \u2014 An East Texas soldier has been killed in Afghanistan. Staff Sgt. Nelson D. Trent, a Round Rock resident, was killed Thursday in Afghanistan. A native of Whitehouse, Trent, 37, died in Kandahar after an improvised explosive device ignited, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Defense. The release said Trent was assigned to the 56th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 36th Infantry Division out of Fort Worth. Trent had been affiliated with the Texas Army National Guard, as the communications officer in charge for Joint Task Force 71, an emergency response unit made up of several guard units. <\/p>\n<p>Trent graduated from Whitehouse High School in 1993. He was married with two children. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN \u2014 An East Texas soldier has been killed in Afghanistan. Staff Sgt. Nelson D. Trent, a Round Rock resident, was killed Thursday in Afghanistan. A native of Whitehouse, Trent, 37, died in Kandahar after an improvised explosive device ignited, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Defense. The release said Trent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=230191\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Texas Soldier Killed in Afghanistan<\/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-230191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 17:02:15","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\/230191","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=230191"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230369,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230191\/revisions\/230369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}