{"id":317955,"date":"2026-06-01T19:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/317955\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T19:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:03:14","slug":"caprock-chronicles-on-lubbock-tornado-jams-joe-ely-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/317955\/","title":{"rendered":"Caprock Chronicles on Lubbock Tornado Jams, Joe Ely, Pt. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 30, 2026, 4:45 a.m. CT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Editor\u2019s Note: Jack Becker is the editor of Caprock Chronicles and is a Librarian Emeritus from Texas Tech University. He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu.\u00a0Today\u2019s article about Joe Ely\u2019s Tornado Jams is the\u00a0first\u00a0of a\u00a0four-part series by frequent contributor Chuck Lanehart, Lubbock\u00a0attorney\u00a0and award-winning Western history writer.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 30, 2026, 4:45 a.m. CT Editor\u2019s Note: Jack Becker is the editor of Caprock Chronicles and is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[690,168,170,169,103686,804,805,2081,7820,40214,185,3530,184,10983,68594,36],"class_list":["post-317955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-accesspremium","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-sourcelubbock-avalanche-journal","tag-sstsnewshistory","tag-sstsnhistory","tag-tagaccidents-disasters","tag-tagconcerts-music-festivals","tag-tagcountry-music","tag-taglocal-affiliate-arts-entertainment","tag-taglubbock","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagrock-music","tag-tagstevie-ray-vaughan","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317955","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=317955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}