{"id":2271690,"date":"2026-02-07T19:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2271690"},"modified":"2026-02-07T19:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:35:11","slug":"elizabeth-smarts-father-explains-why-savannah-guthrie-siblings-sent-public-plea-to-moms-kidnappers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/elizabeth-smarts-father-explains-why-savannah-guthrie-siblings-sent-public-plea-to-moms-kidnappers\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Smart\u2019s Father Explains Why Savannah Guthrie & Siblings Sent Public Plea to Mom\u2019s Kidnappers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Elizabeth Smart<\/a>\u2018s father, Ed Smart<\/a>, recently offered insight into why Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie<\/a> and her siblings sent a public plea to their mom Nancy Guthrie<\/a>\u2018s kidnappers. During a February 5 interview with Fox & Friends<\/a>, Ed explained, \u201cTalking directly to those that have taken her, the abductors, is crucially important.\u201d He added, \u201cThat they know that they\u2019re trying to comply with everything that\u2019s being said, that they want to resolve this and bring their mother home.\u201d In 2002, Ed\u2019s daughter, Elizabeth, 14, was kidnapped from her bedroom in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her captor, Brian David Mitchell<\/a>, had Elizabeth for about nine months before she was rescued in March 2003. Meanwhile,…<\/div>\n

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Elizabeth Smart\u2018s father, Ed Smart, recently offered insight into why Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie and her siblings sent a public plea to their mom Nancy Guthrie\u2018s kidnappers. During a February 5 interview with Fox & Friends, Ed explained, \u201cTalking directly to those that have taken her, the abductors, is crucially important.\u201d He added, \u201cThat they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2271691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2271690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Elizabeth-Smarts-Father-Explains-Why-Savannah-Guthrie-Siblings-Sent.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2271690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2271692,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271690\/revisions\/2271692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2271691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2271690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2271690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2271690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}