{"id":441249,"date":"2016-01-19T15:49:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T21:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=441249"},"modified":"2016-01-20T15:49:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T21:49:00","slug":"john-sykes-receives-state-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=441249","title":{"rendered":"John Sykes Receives State Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/09\/east-texas-state-fair-21.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-397986\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/09\/east-texas-state-fair-21-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"east-texas-state-fair-2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-397986\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTYLER &#8211; The president and CEO of the parent company which produces the East Texas State Fair and Academic Rodeo in Tyler has received a statewide award. John Sykes has been given the Hall of Fame\/Lifetime Achievement Award by the Texas Association of Fairs and Events. He received the award at the group&#8217;s annual convention in San Antonio. Sykes said the award was a great honor and he very surprised to receive it.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sykes entered the fair industry in the early 1990s as assistant general<br \/>\nmanager of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Since 2006, Sykes has<br \/>\nheaded The Park of East Texas. The Fair celebrated its 100th anniversary<br \/>\nlast year. Over 260,000 persons attended the fair last year. Sykes said<br \/>\nthe Fair is the largest event of its kind in the region and has more than doubled its  economic impact during his tenure, generating close to $9 million a year for the Tyler community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211; The president and CEO of the parent company which produces the East Texas State Fair and Academic Rodeo in Tyler has received a statewide award. John Sykes has been given the Hall of Fame\/Lifetime Achievement Award by the Texas Association of Fairs and Events. He received the award at the group&#8217;s annual convention &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=441249\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John Sykes Receives State Award<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":397986,"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-441249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 20:10:24","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\/441249","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=441249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441255,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441249\/revisions\/441255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/397986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}