{"id":36777,"date":"2023-10-04T15:20:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T19:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=36777"},"modified":"2023-10-04T15:20:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T19:20:22","slug":"florida-deputies-stop-jaywalker-crossing-the-street-near-publix-but-its-not-what-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/10\/04\/florida-deputies-stop-jaywalker-crossing-the-street-near-publix-but-its-not-what-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida deputies stop &#8216;jaywalker&#8217; crossing the street near Publix. But it&#8217;s not what you think"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why did the&nbsp;turtle&nbsp;cross the road?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the answer to that is still unknown, the Polk County Sheriff&#8217;s Office helped solve a little mystery of their own this week. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A turtle was stopped by deputies for &#8220;jaywalking&#8221; on Spirit Lake Road in Winter Haven. Deputies joked on social media that the turtle was found crossing the street near a Publix since it &#8220;probably just finished eating a Pub Sub.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Polk County deputy sprang into action and snagged a box from a nearby Circle K and wrangled the little fella. The turtle was taken to a &#8220;safe place away from traffic,&#8221; deputies said.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"932\" height=\"470\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 932px) 100vw, 932px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/turtle.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36778\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why did the&nbsp;turtle&nbsp;cross the road? While the answer to that is still unknown, the Polk County Sheriff&#8217;s Office helped solve a little mystery of their own this week. &nbsp; A&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36778,"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":[14],"tags":[6213],"class_list":["post-36777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-florida-deputies-stop-jaywalker-crossing-the-street-near-publix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36777","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}