{"id":488865,"date":"2016-05-12T11:27:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T16:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=488865"},"modified":"2016-05-13T11:10:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T16:10:44","slug":"smith-county-sheriff-offers-take-on-west-findings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=488865","title":{"rendered":"Smith County Sheriff Offers Take on West Findings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/05\/Larry-Smith.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/05\/Larry-Smith-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Larry-Smith\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-488868\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Smith County Sheriff Larry Smith weighs in on the outcome of the West fertilizer plant explosion. Before he became Sheriff, Smith worked more than 20 years as a certified fire investigator for the A-T-F.  Smith says he knows from talking to some of the people involved that there has been a &#8220;great amount of research where they reconstructed part of this at the fire research laboratory.&#8221;  Smith says officials were able to reach a conclusion after going through numerous hypotheses.  Officials announced Wednesday that the blast resulted from arson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Smith County Sheriff Larry Smith weighs in on the outcome of the West fertilizer plant explosion. Before he became Sheriff, Smith worked more than 20 years as a certified fire investigator for the A-T-F. Smith says he knows from talking to some of the people involved that there has been a &#8220;great amount &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=488865\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County Sheriff Offers Take on West Findings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":488868,"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-488865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 22:08:31","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\/488865","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=488865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488869,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488865\/revisions\/488869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/488868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=488865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=488865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=488865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}