{"id":929043,"date":"2020-10-08T11:42:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T16:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=929043"},"modified":"2020-10-09T11:42:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T16:42:09","slug":"smith-county-judge-to-opt-in-on-opening-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=929043","title":{"rendered":"Smith County judge to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153opt in\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on opening bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/10\/Judge-Moran-051920-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-929044\" \/>TYLER &#8212; Smith County Judge Nathaniel Moran said Thursday that he will unquestionably \u00e2\u20ac\u0153opt in\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on Governor Abbott&#8217;s bar reopening order, set to take effect at 12:01 a.m. October 14. The governor&#8217;s order provides authority to individual county judges to open bars to 50 percent capacity in counties that have 15 percent or less capacity of COVID-19 cases in local hospitals. Smith County falls within this qualifying category. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Moran welcomed the ability to exercise some local authority and get bars &#8220;back to business as quickly as possible and to the fullest extent possible.&#8221;  You can go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smith-county.com\/Home\/Components\/News\/News\/504\/97\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.smith-county.com\/Home\/Components\/News\/News\/504\/97<\/a> for additional details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Smith County Judge Nathaniel Moran said Thursday that he will unquestionably \u00e2\u20ac\u0153opt in\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on Governor Abbott&#8217;s bar reopening order, set to take effect at 12:01 a.m. October 14. The governor&#8217;s order provides authority to individual county judges to open bars to 50 percent capacity in counties that have 15 percent or less capacity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=929043\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County judge to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153opt in\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on opening bars<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"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-929043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 18:32:57","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\/929043","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=929043"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929050,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929043\/revisions\/929050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=929043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=929043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=929043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}