{"id":82116,"date":"2011-03-30T02:25:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T07:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=82116"},"modified":"2011-03-31T02:36:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T07:36:14","slug":"senator-deuell-aids-spectator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=82116","title":{"rendered":"Senator Deuell Aids Spectator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/2011\/03\/30\/senator-deuell-aids-spectator\/bob-deuell2-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-82117\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/03\/bob-deuell2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bob deuell2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-82117\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAUSTIN (AP) &#8212; Senator Bob Deuell, whose district covers part of Smith County, and who&#8217;s a physician in his real life, was pressed into action when a spectator passed out in the Senate public gallery during a resolution honoring Americans who fought and died in Vietnam. Turns out the patient was Jay Kimbrough, a Vietnam veteran and former top aide to Governor Rick Perry. Kimbrough stayed down for several minutes and although security rushed a defibrillator over to Kimbrough it case it was needed, he was eventually able to walk out on his own.<\/p>\n<p>Kimbrough, a former Marine, who was wounded in combat and has a tough-guy reputation, needed some prodding to go to the emergency room to get checked out. &#8220;I told him, you want me to call the boss?&#8221; said Sen. Leticia Van de Putte. &#8220;He said, &#8216;You&#8217;re going to call Governor Perry?&#8217; I said, &#8216;No, I&#8217;m going to call your wife!'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN (AP) &#8212; Senator Bob Deuell, whose district covers part of Smith County, and who&#8217;s a physician in his real life, was pressed into action when a spectator passed out in the Senate public gallery during a resolution honoring Americans who fought and died in Vietnam. Turns out the patient was Jay Kimbrough, a Vietnam &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=82116\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Senator Deuell Aids Spectator<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"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-82116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 03:49:01","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\/82116","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=82116"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82416,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82116\/revisions\/82416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}