{"id":697162,"date":"2018-03-07T03:47:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T09:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=697162"},"modified":"2018-03-08T08:31:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T14:31:24","slug":"putman-wins-smith-county-district-attorney-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=697162","title":{"rendered":"Putman Wins Smith County District Attorney Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/03\/JP-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-697163\" \/>TYLER &#8212; In a hotly contested Republican race, Jacob Putman prevailed over Alicia Barkley and will be Smith County&#8217;s next district attorney. He told KTBB he&#8217;s very pleased with the outcome, saying it&#8217;s very encouraging. He said his family, friends and church had been working really hard on the election and expressed gratitude that the voters &#8220;saw the truth.&#8221; Putman says there&#8217;s a lot of work to do in the next several months, saying, &#8220;Between now and January we&#8217;ll be getting ready to have a smooth transition so that we can prepare to make Smith County the safest place it can be.&#8221; Gregg County will also be getting a new DA, with Tom Watson unseating incumbent Carl Dorrough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; In a hotly contested Republican race, Jacob Putman prevailed over Alicia Barkley and will be Smith County&#8217;s next district attorney. He told KTBB he&#8217;s very pleased with the outcome, saying it&#8217;s very encouraging. He said his family, friends and church had been working really hard on the election and expressed gratitude that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=697162\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Putman Wins Smith County District Attorney Race<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":697163,"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-697162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 19:07:38","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\/697162","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=697162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697237,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697162\/revisions\/697237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/697163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=697162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=697162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=697162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}