{"id":115448,"date":"2026-01-08T12:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/115448\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T12:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:45:07","slug":"family-man-by-day-hog-exterminator-by-night-texas-monthly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/115448\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Man by Day, Hog Exterminator by Night \u2013 Texas Monthly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editors\u2019 note: This segment first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/tm-presents-pbs-series\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Monthly Presents<\/a>, a television program airing on Texas PBS stations and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/show\/texas-monthly-presents-the-story\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PBS.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Feral hogs cause extensive economic damage to agriculture across the state, and Eli Smith, a farrier in Lockhart, is on a one-man mission to make a dent in their impact. Senior writer Josh Alvarez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/travel\/feral-hogs-hunting-lockhart\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote about Smith\u2019s ongoing battle<\/a>, leading Alvarez down a path of particularly hands-on reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Editors\u2019 note: This segment first appeared on Texas Monthly Presents, a television program airing on Texas PBS stations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[37069,50758,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-115448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-feral-hogs","9":"tag-hunting-fishing","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-texas-headlines","12":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}