{"id":393931,"date":"2015-09-10T14:36:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T19:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=393931"},"modified":"2015-09-11T14:36:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T19:36:01","slug":"sheriff-smith-seeks-second-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=393931","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff Smith Seeks Second Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/09\/Larry-Smith-Presser_1441910780411_4771486_ver1.0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/09\/Larry-Smith-Presser_1441910780411_4771486_ver1.0-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Larry Smith Presser_1441910780411_4771486_ver1.0\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-393932\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Smith County Sheriff Larry Smith Thursday announced his plans to seek re-election.  Smith says he made a lot of promises in the last campaign which he thinks have been fulfilled, but that he&#8217;s not through what he started.  Smith added, &#8220;There&#8217;s a great need for the citizens of Smith County to have a responsive sheriff&#8217;s office, and I want to do what I can to make that happen.&#8221;  Smith won his first term in 2012 in a runoff against retired Game Warden Chris Green.  Green has announced he will seek the sheriff&#8217;s seat once again.  Gary Pinkerton, a former Smith County chief deputy and jail administrator, announced his Democratic candidacy for sheriff in early August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Smith County Sheriff Larry Smith Thursday announced his plans to seek re-election. Smith says he made a lot of promises in the last campaign which he thinks have been fulfilled, but that he&#8217;s not through what he started. Smith added, &#8220;There&#8217;s a great need for the citizens of Smith County to have a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=393931\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sheriff Smith Seeks Second Term<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":393932,"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-393931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 05:44:55","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\/393931","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=393931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394004,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393931\/revisions\/394004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/393932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}