{"id":492019,"date":"2016-05-19T18:09:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T23:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=492019"},"modified":"2016-05-20T18:09:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T23:09:22","slug":"abbott-makes-tyler-stop-on-book-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=492019","title":{"rendered":"Abbott Makes Tyler Stop on Book Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/05\/gregabbott-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/05\/gregabbott-1-200x139.jpg\" alt=\"gregabbott-1\" width=\"200\" height=\"139\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-488438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/05\/gregabbott-1-200x139.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/05\/gregabbott-1-450x312.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/05\/gregabbott-1.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>TYLER (Staff\/AP) &#8211; Gov. Greg Abbott stopped in Tyler Thursday on a bus tour to promote his book detailing how he overcame an accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down.  Abbott greeted the public and signed copies of &#8220;Broken But Unbowed&#8221; at Hastings on South Broadway.  In 1984 at age 26, Abbott was jogging when a falling tree crushed his spine and left him using a wheelchair.  So why read the book? The governor told KETK, &#8220;You can tell from what is going on in the presidential race.   Now, there is great angst about what is going on in America.  I provide a solution to the challenges we face in the United States today.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER (Staff\/AP) &#8211; Gov. Greg Abbott stopped in Tyler Thursday on a bus tour to promote his book detailing how he overcame an accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down. Abbott greeted the public and signed copies of &#8220;Broken But Unbowed&#8221; at Hastings on South Broadway. In 1984 at age 26, Abbott was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=492019\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Abbott Makes Tyler Stop on Book Tour<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":488438,"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-492019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 00:17:49","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\/492019","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=492019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492023,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492019\/revisions\/492023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/488438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}