{"id":3491,"date":"2019-10-08T10:43:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T14:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=3491"},"modified":"2019-10-08T14:53:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T18:53:04","slug":"florida-highway-patrol-trooper-receives-roadway-designation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2019\/10\/08\/florida-highway-patrol-trooper-receives-roadway-designation\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Receives Roadway Designation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On October 9<sup>th<\/sup>, a portion of Interstate 4 between the 36 and 44 mileposts in Polk County will be renamed in remembrance of fallen Florida Highway Patrol Trooper John C. Hagerty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/5899.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3492\" width=\"206\" height=\"257\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trooper Hagerty was a member of the Florida Highway Patrol who served the citizens of Florida for 13 years.&nbsp; His career with FHP began October 15, 1956, as a member of the 15th Recruit Class in Tallahassee.&nbsp; His duty stations included Frostproof, Punta Gorda, Stuart and Orlando.&nbsp; On March 18, 1970, while piloting an FHP traffic aircraft over Interstate 4 near Lakeland, Trooper Hagerty, 44, was struck by a low-flying military aircraft and suffered fatal injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"496\" height=\"270\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Trooper-Hagerty-Memorial.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Trooper-Hagerty-Memorial.png 496w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Trooper-Hagerty-Memorial-300x163.png 300w\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPaying tribute to Trooper Hagerty by renaming a portion of Interstate 4 in his honor is a great tribute,\u201d said Colonel Gene Spaulding, Director of the Florida Highway Patrol. \u201cTrooper Hagerty was dedicated to serving the residents and visitors of this state as a Florida Highway Patrol Trooper, and the ultimate sacrifice he paid is well deserving of this recognition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ceremony will be held at the Lake Florida Highway Patrol station located at 3247 Lakeland Hills Blvd, Lakeland, FL 33805 and will begin at 2:00 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 9th, a portion of Interstate 4 between the 36 and 44 mileposts in Polk County will be renamed in remembrance of fallen Florida Highway Patrol Trooper John C.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3492,"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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491","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=3491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}