{"id":858717,"date":"2020-03-10T13:30:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T18:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=858717"},"modified":"2020-03-11T13:30:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T18:30:18","slug":"gohmert-cleared-for-work-after-possible-coronavirus-exposure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=858717","title":{"rendered":"Gohmert: I&#8217;m Fine &#038; Not Eligible for Coronavirus Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/03\/ae423b08bb7a6e382fbd54184d3257a9_400x400-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-858718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/03\/ae423b08bb7a6e382fbd54184d3257a9_400x400-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/03\/ae423b08bb7a6e382fbd54184d3257a9_400x400-200x200.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/03\/ae423b08bb7a6e382fbd54184d3257a9_400x400.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>TYLER &#8212; Congressman Louie Gohmert is back at work in Washington because he showed zero symptoms of coronavirus, despite possibly being exposed. On Tuesday, Ghomert told KTBB, &#8220;I&#8217;m fine, they gave me a physical exam and said, but you don&#8217;t meet the criteria. There is absolutely nothing wrong with you.&#8221; The U.S. Representative for Texas District 1 continued, &#8220;You don&#8217;t meet any of the criteria for being tested for the coronavirus. They said we are not allowed to test you, because you are not sick. There&#8217;s nothing wrong.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Congressman Louie Gohmert is back at work in Washington because he showed zero symptoms of coronavirus, despite possibly being exposed. On Tuesday, Ghomert told KTBB, &#8220;I&#8217;m fine, they gave me a physical exam and said, but you don&#8217;t meet the criteria. There is absolutely nothing wrong with you.&#8221; The U.S. Representative for Texas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=858717\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gohmert: I&#8217;m Fine &#038; Not Eligible for Coronavirus Test<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":858718,"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-858717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-05 02:59:09","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\/858717","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=858717"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858964,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858717\/revisions\/858964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/858718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=858717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=858717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=858717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}