{"id":679106,"date":"2017-12-27T02:59:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T08:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=679106"},"modified":"2017-12-28T03:34:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T09:34:48","slug":"east-texas-pastor-dies-in-costa-rica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=679106","title":{"rendered":"East Texas Pastor Dies in Costa Rica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/12\/Kelly-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-679107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/12\/Kelly-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/12\/Kelly-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/12\/Kelly-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/12\/Kelly.jpg 687w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>TYLER &#8212;  An East Texas pastor has died after a heroic act on Christmas Day in Costa Rica. According to KETK, Kelly Clarke of New Covenant Church attempted to rescue a little boy who was drowning when he passed away. He and his family were in Costa Rica doing missionary work. The boy survived the the incident. The family has started a GoFundMe page to bring his body back to Texas. To donate, visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/8wzp9x-bring-kelly-clarke-home\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/8wzp9x-bring-kelly-clarke-home<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; An East Texas pastor has died after a heroic act on Christmas Day in Costa Rica. According to KETK, Kelly Clarke of New Covenant Church attempted to rescue a little boy who was drowning when he passed away. He and his family were in Costa Rica doing missionary work. The boy survived the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=679106\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Texas Pastor Dies in Costa Rica<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":679107,"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-679106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 03:01:53","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\/679106","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=679106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679108,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679106\/revisions\/679108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/679107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=679106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=679106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=679106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}