{"id":416074,"date":"2026-08-25T08:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T08:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/416074\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T08:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T08:32:12","slug":"east-texas-tonight-getting-neighborly-with-hideaway-mayor-chet-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/416074\/","title":{"rendered":"East Texas Tonight: Getting neighborly with Hideaway mayor Chet Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Chet Thomas is first and foremost a neighbor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He serves as the Mayor of Hideaway\u2014a picturesque, lakeside community of just over 3,000 residents in Smith County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">While keeping busy guiding Hideaway\u2019s local government and coordinating closely with regional partners, outside of the city office you are just as likely to find Chet enjoying East Texas\u2019s natural beauty, spending time with family, or chatting with residents.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Chet Thomas is first and foremost a neighbor. He serves as the Mayor of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[144942,144941,90885,21345,18153,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-416074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-chet-thomas","tag-hideaway","tag-lindale","tag-small-town","tag-smith-county","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416074","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=416074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}