{"id":663126,"date":"2017-10-20T11:59:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T16:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=663126"},"modified":"2017-10-22T08:11:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T13:11:42","slug":"shooting-of-417-pound-hog-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=663126","title":{"rendered":"Shooting of 417-Pound Hog Goes Viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/10\/bigpig_1508248896224_27855535_ver1.0_640_360-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-663127\" \/>UNION GROVE &#8212; An East Texas man is getting all kinds of attention over a 417-pound wild hog. Joe Clowers was spending the night at a deer stand on his property in Union Grove when the giant hog appeared. He shot it with an AR-15 rifle. Then his friend, who is the Gregg County game warden, posted it on their Facebook page &#8212; And it&#8217;s gone viral.  Clowers says he&#8217;s &#8220;still somewhat in shock.  He says the shooting happened as part of an eradication effort and he &#8220;never knew people cared that much about a big pig.&#8221; He mounted the head as a trophy for his daughter. He also processed the meat to feed homeless animals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNION GROVE &#8212; An East Texas man is getting all kinds of attention over a 417-pound wild hog. Joe Clowers was spending the night at a deer stand on his property in Union Grove when the giant hog appeared. He shot it with an AR-15 rifle. Then his friend, who is the Gregg County game &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=663126\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shooting of 417-Pound Hog Goes Viral<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":663127,"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-663126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-12 19:39:23","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\/663126","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=663126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663128,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663126\/revisions\/663128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/663127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=663126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}