{"id":771153,"date":"2019-02-27T14:29:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T20:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=771153"},"modified":"2019-02-28T14:29:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T20:29:11","slug":"former-east-texan-freed-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=771153","title":{"rendered":"Former East Texan Freed in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/02\/Danny-Burch.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/02\/Danny-Burch-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-771154\" \/><\/a>EAST TEXAS &#8211; (AP &#038; STAFF) A former East Texan has been freed after being abducted 18 months ago in Yemen. President Donald Trump announced  that Danny Burch, had been freed. It&#8217;s unclear who kidnapped him in September 2017. Birch, who was working in the oil  field as a mechanic, was abducted in a busy street in the middle of the day.  He grew up in White Oak and lived in Kilgore for years. Army Sgt. Maj. Cale Burch is one of Danny Burch&#8217;s three children from an earlier marriage. He told The Associated Press  that his father is &#8220;safe, and that&#8217;s all that really matters to me.&#8221;  Burch says he got a phone call Sunday from the FBI letting him know his father&#8217;s release had been brokered. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS &#8211; (AP &#038; STAFF) A former East Texan has been freed after being abducted 18 months ago in Yemen. President Donald Trump announced that Danny Burch, had been freed. It&#8217;s unclear who kidnapped him in September 2017. Birch, who was working in the oil field as a mechanic, was abducted in a busy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=771153\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former East Texan Freed in the Middle East<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":771154,"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-771153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 09:59:27","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\/771153","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=771153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771157,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771153\/revisions\/771157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/771154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=771153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=771153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=771153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}