{"id":300989,"date":"2014-05-14T06:46:04","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T11:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=300989"},"modified":"2014-05-15T11:11:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T16:11:34","slug":"east-texas-man-died-when-hit-by-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=300989","title":{"rendered":"East Texas Man Died When Hit by Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/05\/lightning1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/05\/lightning1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"lightning\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-300995\" \/><\/a>NACOGDOCHES (AP) \u2013 Investigators say an East Texas man has died after apparently being struck by lightning while outside his home. The Nacogdoches County Sheriff\u2019s Office has identified the victim as Hank Wiederhold, 60, of Nacogdoches. Sheriff Jason Bridges says Widerhold\u2019s body was discovered last Friday in his backyard near a tree. The victim had a burn mark on his midsection. Witnesses reported hearing a loud boom prior to Wiederhold being found dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NACOGDOCHES (AP) \u2013 Investigators say an East Texas man has died after apparently being struck by lightning while outside his home. The Nacogdoches County Sheriff\u2019s Office has identified the victim as Hank Wiederhold, 60, of Nacogdoches. Sheriff Jason Bridges says Widerhold\u2019s body was discovered last Friday in his backyard near a tree. The victim had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=300989\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Texas Man Died When Hit by Lightning<\/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-300989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 01:53:39","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\/300989","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=300989"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301082,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300989\/revisions\/301082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}