{"id":345574,"date":"2015-04-19T16:13:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T21:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=345574"},"modified":"2015-04-20T16:00:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T21:00:21","slug":"wwi-dog-tag-returned-to-texas-soldiers-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=345574","title":{"rendered":"WWI Dog Tag Returned to Texas Soldier&#8217;s Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/04\/Elmer-Jordan-dog-tax.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/04\/Elmer-Jordan-dog-tax-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Elmer Jordan dog tax\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-345575\" \/><\/a>DALLAS (AP\/STAFF) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Almost a century after a World War I soldier abandoned his dog tag following his return home to Texas, it was discovered nearly a foot underground by an amateur treasure hunter with a metal detector. George Middleton found the dog tag in the Henderson County town of Murchison and then tracked down Pvt. Elmer Jordan&#8217;s grandson, Bill Jordan, in the nearby town of Kaufman, about 45 miles away. He was found after this picture of the dog tag was posted on the Henderson County Now Facebook site. The Dallas Morning News reports the two families gathered in Murchison recently for the handoff. Just months after returning home from fighting in France, Elmer Jordan lost his right hand in a shotgun accident. Bill Jordan said family lore is that his grandfather buried his old dog tag with the missing hand. Elmer Jordan died in 1966.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS (AP\/STAFF) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Almost a century after a World War I soldier abandoned his dog tag following his return home to Texas, it was discovered nearly a foot underground by an amateur treasure hunter with a metal detector. George Middleton found the dog tag in the Henderson County town of Murchison and then tracked down &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=345574\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WWI Dog Tag Returned to Texas Soldier&#8217;s Family<\/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-345574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 00:56:11","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\/345574","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=345574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345576,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345574\/revisions\/345576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}