{"id":326016,"date":"2015-02-17T02:20:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T08:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=326016"},"modified":"2015-02-18T02:18:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T08:18:58","slug":"former-longview-resident-s-i-swimsuit-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=326016","title":{"rendered":"Former Longview Resident S.I. Swimsuit Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/02\/Ashley-Smith.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/02\/Ashley-Smith-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Ashley Smith\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-326017\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW \u2013 A former Longview resident has been named the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Rookie for 2015. She is Ashley Smith, 24, now a resident of New York.. According to a bio on the magazine\u2019s web site, \u201cI went to high school in Austin, but before that I lived in a real small, middle-of-nowhere town called Longview \u2014 ranches, cowboys, big trucks, nothing but BBQ places. I always felt different from a young age and liked people that other people didn&#8217;t, until I got to eighth grade and started hanging out with the punks and the goths. If you got bored, you&#8217;d just put another safety pin through your ear. What else are you supposed to do in a small town where there&#8217;s nothing to do? Sports Illustrated says Smith was discovered at a concert during the South by Southwest music festival in Austin. Smith is said to be a designer for a line of clothes for California-based streetwear company RVCA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2013 A former Longview resident has been named the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Rookie for 2015. She is Ashley Smith, 24, now a resident of New York.. According to a bio on the magazine\u2019s web site, \u201cI went to high school in Austin, but before that I lived in a real small, middle-of-nowhere town called &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=326016\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former Longview Resident S.I. Swimsuit Winner<\/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-326016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-14 09:31:12","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\/326016","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=326016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326032,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326016\/revisions\/326032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}