{"id":157,"date":"2005-11-30T18:28:49","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T02:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=157"},"modified":"2005-11-30T18:29:01","modified_gmt":"2005-12-01T02:29:01","slug":"police-escort-for-santa-claus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2005\/11\/30\/police-escort-for-santa-claus\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Escort for Santa Claus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year since we&#8217;ve lived here, we&#8217;ve seen the <strong>Torrance Police Officers&#8217; Association<\/strong> escort <strong>Santa Claus<\/strong> into each and every neighborhood. To do this, they have to start right after the Thanksgiving Holiday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/november\/tpoa.jpg\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Santa (left) rides on a 30 foot long holiday float pulled by a light truck while the police cruisers (right) lead and follow the float throughout the evening.  The procession stops for a few minutes at walking-distance intervals so the kids from toddlers to geriatrics can come and see Santa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year since we&#8217;ve lived here, the Torrance (CA) Police Officers&#8217; Association escorts Santa into each and every neighborhood. To do this, they have to start right after the Thanksgiving Holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-law-and-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}