{"id":712070,"date":"2018-05-02T20:23:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T01:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=712070"},"modified":"2018-05-03T20:23:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T01:23:12","slug":"boy-now-has-a-ride-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=712070","title":{"rendered":"Boy Now Has a Ride to School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/05\/Joseph-Alvardo-and-bike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/05\/Joseph-Alvardo-and-bike-172x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-712071\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/05\/Joseph-Alvardo-and-bike-172x200.jpg 172w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/05\/Joseph-Alvardo-and-bike-388x450.jpg 388w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/05\/Joseph-Alvardo-and-bike.jpg 684w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW &#8211; A Longview middle school student, who has been walking to school, can now ride. Forest Park School Resource Officer Jose Montalvo and Gregg County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Deputy Sgt. Tracey Freeman found out that Joseph Alvarado was walking an hour one-way to school every day.  Impressed that the student was so dedicated to getting his education they contacted the Longview PD Blue Santa program. According to the police department&#8217;s Facebook page, the program was able to get a bike, complete with lights, and the officers donated it to him Wednesday. Now Joseph&#8217;s trip to school will go much faster. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8211; A Longview middle school student, who has been walking to school, can now ride. Forest Park School Resource Officer Jose Montalvo and Gregg County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Deputy Sgt. Tracey Freeman found out that Joseph Alvarado was walking an hour one-way to school every day. Impressed that the student was so dedicated to getting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=712070\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boy Now Has a Ride to School<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":712071,"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-712070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 18:04:08","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\/712070","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=712070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712073,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712070\/revisions\/712073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/712071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=712070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=712070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=712070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}