{"id":33860,"date":"2016-10-14T08:03:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T15:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/long-serving-priest-dies-in-southwest-alaska-village-fire\/"},"modified":"2016-10-14T08:03:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T15:03:30","slug":"long-serving-priest-dies-in-southwest-alaska-village-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/long-serving-priest-dies-in-southwest-alaska-village-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-serving priest dies in southwest Alaska village fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 A 72-year-old man died Tuesday in a fire in the southwest Alaska village of Chefornak.<\/p>\n<p>The Roman Catholic Diocese of Fairbanks identified the man as a long-serving priest, Theodore Kestler.<\/p>\n<p>The diocese says the fire broke out in the church rectory and Kestler was found inside.<\/p>\n<p>Alaska State Troopers in Bethel received a report shortly before 9:30 a.m. that a Chefornak home was in flames and that residents could not reach a man inside.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers reached the village to confirm the fire and death.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy has been ordered.<\/p>\n<p>A deputy state fire marshal is attempting to determine the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 A 72-year-old man died Tuesday in a fire in the southwest Alaska village of Chefornak. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Fairbanks identified the man as a long-serving priest, Theodore Kestler. The diocese says the fire broke out in the church rectory and Kestler was found inside. Alaska State Troopers in Bethel received a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-33860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33860"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=33860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}