{"id":1606,"date":"2009-09-21T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/21\/channeling-an-escape-legend"},"modified":"2009-09-21T12:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T12:25:00","slug":"channeling-an-escape-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1606","title":{"rendered":"Channeling an escape legend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Joshua Duane Barnes must be channeling Harry Houdini.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m guessing that the great escape artist, Houdini, had nothing on this other dude, Barnes.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Barnes escaped corrections authorities &#8212; for the third time &#8212; over the weekend. He had wiggled his way out of Potter County&#8217;s grasp before being sent to the state corrections system on a variety of felony convictions in both Potter and Randall counties.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes was being treated in a Galveston prison hospital for injuries suffered in a fight at the Ferguson Unit north of Huntsville. Texas corrections officials say he apparently broke through the drywall in his hospital room, got through a window and used a couple of sheets to lower himself to a roof. Then he was gone.<\/p>\n<p>Potter County sheriff&#8217;s authorities say they&#8217;ve gotten word of Barnes&#8217; escape.<\/p>\n<p>Police urge the rest of us to look for someone wearing hospital garb &#8212; and sporting shiners under both eyes as well as other facial injuries. You&#8217;d think he wouldn&#8217;t be that hard to spot.<\/p>\n<p>Then again &#8230;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Duane Barnes must be channeling Harry Houdini. But I&#8217;m guessing that the great escape artist, Houdini, had nothing on this other dude, Barnes. Joshua Barnes escaped corrections authorities &#8212; for the third time &#8212; over the weekend. He had wiggled his way out of Potter County&#8217;s grasp before being sent to the state corrections &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1606\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Channeling an escape legend<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}