{"id":72523,"date":"2026-07-01T20:15:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T00:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=72523"},"modified":"2026-07-01T20:15:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T00:15:37","slug":"polk-county-sheriff-grady-judd-rick-wilson-and-bill-braswell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/07\/01\/polk-county-sheriff-grady-judd-rick-wilson-and-bill-braswell\/","title":{"rendered":"Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, Rick Wilson, and Bill Braswell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Editoral<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, Rick Wilson, and Bill Braswell were born in an era when women couldn’t obtain credit without a husband’s approval, were routinely paid less than men, could be fired for becoming pregnant, and faced significant barriers to pursuing careers. They were also born in an era when animals were viewed as disposable, shelters routinely killed healthy animals, and society largely accepted it as normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Being born in that era is not the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remaining trapped in that era’s mentality is.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editoral Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, Rick Wilson, and Bill Braswell were born in an era when women couldn’t obtain credit without a husband’s approval, were routinely paid less than… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72524,"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":"","_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDdcLzE5NTAtRXJhLS53ZWJwP2ZpdD05MTQlMkMxMDI0JnNzbD0xIiwidHh0IjoiUG9sayBDb3VudHkgU2hlcmlmZiBHcmFkeSBKdWRkLCBSaWNrIFdpbHNvbiwgYW5kIEJpbGwgQnJhc3dlbGwiLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImRvaXMiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.1SDmYt0CexyOuMa0KjRe1mTt9LsYVlg_54m1kWjqgL4MQ"},"version":2,"media_source":"sig","attached_media":[{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/jetpack.com\/redirect\/?source=sigenerate&query=t%3DeyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDdcLzE5NTAtRXJhLS53ZWJwP2ZpdD05MTQlMkMxMDI0JnNzbD0xIiwidHh0IjoiUG9sayBDb3VudHkgU2hlcmlmZiBHcmFkeSBKdWRkLCBSaWNrIFdpbHNvbiwgYW5kIEJpbGwgQnJhc3dlbGwiLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImRvaXMiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.1SDmYt0CexyOuMa0KjRe1mTt9LsYVlg_54m1kWjqgL4MQ","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorial"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72523","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=72523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72525,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72523\/revisions\/72525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}