{"id":40895,"date":"2024-01-11T19:36:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T00:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=40895"},"modified":"2024-01-11T19:36:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T00:36:38","slug":"trooper-ronald-g-smith-roadway-rededication-citrus-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/01\/11\/trooper-ronald-g-smith-roadway-rededication-citrus-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Trooper Ronald G. Smith &#8211; Roadway Rededication &#8211; Citrus County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, January 11th, FHP hosted a roadway rededication ceremony for Trooper Ronald Smith who was shot and killed while checking on two men in a parked car on US-19 in Citrus County, south of Inglis, Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" data-id=\"40898\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Ronald-Smith-Dedication-1-11-2023-20.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Ronald-Smith-Dedication-1-11-2023-20-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Ronald-Smith-Dedication-1-11-2023-20-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Ronald-Smith-Dedication-1-11-2023-20-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Ronald-Smith-Dedication-1-11-2023-20-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Ronald-Smith-Dedication-1-11-2023-20-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Ronald-Smith-Dedication-1-11-2023-20-scaled.jpg?w=2220&amp;ssl=1 2220w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" data-id=\"40896\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Trooper-Ronald-Smith.jpg?resize=200%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40896\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"40897\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Ronald-Smith-Dedication-1-11-2023-4.jpg?w=1110&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40897\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trooper Smith had served the residents of Florida, with the Florida Highway Patrol, for 8 months at the time of his death. His career with FHP began on May 1, 1973. He attended the 43rd\u00a0recruit class in Tallahassee, from June 25 to September 14, 1973.\u00a0 He was stationed in Homosassa, Florida and at the time of his death, he was 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, January 11th, FHP hosted a roadway rededication ceremony for Trooper Ronald Smith who was shot and killed while checking on two men in a parked car on US-19&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","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":[7261],"class_list":["post-40895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-trooper-ronald-g-smith-roadway-rededication-citrus-county"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40895","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=40895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40899,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40895\/revisions\/40899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}