{"id":310230,"date":"2014-08-10T07:59:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T12:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=310230"},"modified":"2014-08-11T16:46:02","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T21:46:02","slug":"east-texas-football-player-killed-in-wreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=310230","title":{"rendered":"East Texas Football Player Killed in Wreck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/08\/adarian_parker_best.1407631035.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/08\/adarian_parker_best.1407631035-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"adarian_parker_best.1407631035\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-310231\" \/><\/a>WEST RUSK \u2014 A West Rusk football player has been killed in a one-vehicle accident several miles outside of Henderson in Rusk County. Adarian Parker, 16, of Henderson, was traveling southeast on Texas Highway 323 Friday when he reportedly lost control of the vehicle and left the roadway striking a tree. Parker was pronounced dead at the scene. Passenger London Martin, 15, was released from the hospital with minor injuries.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>West Rusk Athletic Director and Head Football Coach John Frazier said in a released statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we are very thankful that London is OK, our hearts are broken for the loss of a sweet gentle giant,\u201d Frazier said. \u201cWe will miss Adarian\u2019s sweet smile and upbeat personality. Our thoughts and prayers are with all involved in this tragic situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parker, a sophmore, was set to begin his first season with the West Rusk Raider varsity football team as a lineman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST RUSK \u2014 A West Rusk football player has been killed in a one-vehicle accident several miles outside of Henderson in Rusk County. Adarian Parker, 16, of Henderson, was traveling southeast on Texas Highway 323 Friday when he reportedly lost control of the vehicle and left the roadway striking a tree. Parker was pronounced dead &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=310230\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Texas Football Player Killed in Wreck<\/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-310230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 20:55:14","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\/310230","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=310230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310289,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310230\/revisions\/310289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}