{"id":12823,"date":"2021-07-03T14:24:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T18:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=12823"},"modified":"2021-07-03T14:24:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T18:24:36","slug":"rip-bloodhound-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/07\/03\/rip-bloodhound-diego\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Bloodhound Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/212401199_10158300175556818_2081054724753194416_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12824\" width=\"317\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/212401199_10158300175556818_2081054724753194416_n.jpg 492w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/212401199_10158300175556818_2081054724753194416_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/212401199_10158300175556818_2081054724753194416_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/212401199_10158300175556818_2081054724753194416_n-250x250.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Polk County Sheriff&#8217;s Office was saddened to learn of the passing of retired Bloodhound Diego on Friday morning, July 2nd. We&#8217;re told that Diego crossed over the Rainbow Bridge surrounded by loving family members, including his two former PCSO handlers, former deputies Russell and Ranze. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diego served the people of Polk County for ten years, tracking down numerous missing and endangered adults and children during that time. Diego and D\/S Russell were even presented the Jimmy Ryce K-9 Trailing Team of the Year award in 2011 by the governor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To Diego&#8217;s former handlers, all we can say at a time like this is to cherish the memories you have of your great fuzzy friend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heavenly belly rubs, Diego!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Polk County Sheriff&#8217;s Office was saddened to learn of the passing of retired Bloodhound Diego on Friday morning, July 2nd. We&#8217;re told that Diego crossed over the Rainbow Bridge&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[709],"class_list":["post-12823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sheriffs-corner","tag-rip-bloodhound-diego"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}