{"id":682727,"date":"2018-01-11T20:03:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T02:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=682727"},"modified":"2018-01-13T07:47:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T13:47:23","slug":"tylers-new-rose-queen-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=682727","title":{"rendered":"Tyler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s New Rose Queen Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/01\/Amanda-Elaine-Hiles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/01\/Amanda-Elaine-Hiles-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-682728\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c It is a first for the Texas Rose Festival. A Tyler Junior College student has been named queen of the festival. The 85th Texas Rose Queen is Amanda Elaine Hiles of Tyler, a freshman at TJC. The announcement was made Thursday night at a gala event and a news conference. But, according to a news release from TJC, her identity as queen had actually been a closely guarded secret kept under wraps since early November. On the morning of Thursday, Nov. 2, Texas Rose Festival President Brad Curtis and a small entourage of rose festival officials, members of the Hiles family and a huge bouquet of roses, made a surprise visit to the TJC main campus to drop in on an Apache Belles rehearsal. It was then when Curtis asked Amanda, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Would you be my queen?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He got a quick, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153yes.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Texas Rose Festival has been a longtime tradition in Amanda\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s family. She said her mother was a lady in waiting, her aunt was queen, she was a train bearer when she was little, her older brother was an escort, and last year her sister was a lady in waiting. <\/p>\n<p>Amanda\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Rose Festival escort will be Jace Evans, son of Apache Belles Artistic Director\/Choreographer Christy Evans and her husband, Eric Evans.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Jessica Alexander\/TJC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c It is a first for the Texas Rose Festival. A Tyler Junior College student has been named queen of the festival. The 85th Texas Rose Queen is Amanda Elaine Hiles of Tyler, a freshman at TJC. The announcement was made Thursday night at a gala event and a news conference. But, according to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=682727\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tyler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s New Rose Queen Announced<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":682728,"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-682727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 10:25:29","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\/682727","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=682727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682730,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682727\/revisions\/682730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/682728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=682727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=682727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=682727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}