{"id":197,"date":"2014-02-02T16:07:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T22:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestokbooks.com\/?page_id=197"},"modified":"2014-02-02T20:00:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T02:00:10","slug":"jim-etter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bestokbooks.com\/?page_id=197","title":{"rendered":"Jim Etter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"thickbox\" id=\"set-post-thumbnail\" title=\"Set featured image\" href=\"https:\/\/bestokbooks.com\/wp-admin\/media-upload.php?post_id=197&amp;type=image&amp;TB_iframe=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail alignright\" alt=\"Jetter\" src=\"https:\/\/bestokbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Jetter.jpg\" width=\"266\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a>Jim Marion Etter grew up in the small eastern Oklahoma town of Oktaha, and began his journalistic career at the <i>Muskogee Daily Phoenix &amp; Times-Democrat, <\/i>at first selling want ads.<\/p>\n<p>He soon lived and worked in Laredo, Texas, as editor of a small weekly newspaper and later at that town\u2019s first television station.<\/p>\n<p>Many years later he retired as a staff writer for <i>The Daily Oklahoman, <\/i>where he wrote news and features by traveling throughout the state, plus occasionally other states and once in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>He covered many of his stories, about trail rides and ranch-type activities,<i> <\/i>on horseback \u2013 his reputation at <i>The Oklahoman <\/i>humorously illustrated by the paper\u2019s renowned cartoonist, Jim Lange.<\/p>\n<p>Before his newspaper retirement, he took time out to serve a tour of duty as a military journalist and translator in Latin America, including Panama and Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his experience in his home state and Texas, he spent several months in New Mexico, where he researched and wrote about Billy the Kid and Pancho Villa.<\/p>\n<p>For questions, comments or to just chew the fat, he invites anyone to give \u2018im a holler at <a href=\"mailto:Talltales1@cox.net\">talltales1@cox.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>His titles include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/3348254\">Between Me &amp; You &amp; the Gatepost<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/3375960\">Thunder in the Heartland<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Marion Etter grew up in the small eastern Oklahoma town of Oktaha, and began his journalistic career at the Muskogee Daily Phoenix &amp; Times-Democrat, at first selling want ads. He soon lived and worked in Laredo, Texas, as editor of a small weekly newspaper and later at that town\u2019s first television station. Many years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":198,"parent":86,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-197","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestokbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestokbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestokbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestokbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestokbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bestokbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/bestokbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/197\/revisions\/213"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestokbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestokbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestokbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}