{"id":293419,"date":"2014-03-03T01:54:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T07:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=293419"},"modified":"2014-03-04T02:06:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T08:06:19","slug":"gilmer-football-player-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=293419","title":{"rendered":"Gilmer Football Player Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=293422\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-293422\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/03\/GilmerFootball_DesmondPollard_7on7state-300x225-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"GilmerFootball_DesmondPollard_7on7state-300x225\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-293422\" \/><\/a>GILMER \u2013 A Gilmer High School Football Player has died while playing basketball with his friends. Coach Jeff Traylor confirms the death of junior wide receiver Desmond Pollard Sunday night. According to a tweet from Coach Traylor, \u201cDesmond Pollard a Jr. WR #8 just passed away. He was the 4th of his brothers we coached. His sweet smile will always be missed.\u201d The coach said Pollard was playing basketball when he collapsed and stopped breathing.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GILMER \u2013 A Gilmer High School Football Player has died while playing basketball with his friends. Coach Jeff Traylor confirms the death of junior wide receiver Desmond Pollard Sunday night. According to a tweet from Coach Traylor, \u201cDesmond Pollard a Jr. WR #8 just passed away. He was the 4th of his brothers we coached. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=293419\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gilmer Football Player Dies<\/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-293419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 10:56:49","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\/293419","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=293419"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293510,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293419\/revisions\/293510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}