{"id":14479,"date":"2024-04-04T06:15:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T10:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=14479"},"modified":"2024-04-04T06:15:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T10:15:03","slug":"decatur-pds-copper-needs-some-painted-pals-to-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/04\/decatur-pds-copper-needs-some-painted-pals-to-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Decatur PD&#8217;s \u201cCopper\u201d needs some painted pals to grow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not always serious stuff at the Decatur Police Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amy Gage, the department&#8217;s chief clerk, has brought a bit of reptilian fun to the Seventh St. police station, introducing Copper, the rock snake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Copper (\u201cCopper\u201d, get it?) sits outside the station, near the used-drug drop-off box, and he (or she?) invites the public \u201cto add a painted rock to see how long I can get,\u201d as it says on an accompanying sign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sign also includes one piece of advice: \u201cOh \u2013 and smile, you&#8217;re on camera.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So for anyone with any thoughts of taking Copper home \u2026 well, there is likely to be a police car at your door before too long!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Copper has a nice paint job, so it would be best not to bring any old painted rock to the station. Make it good stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com It&#8217;s not always serious stuff at the Decatur Police Department. Amy Gage, the department&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-14479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-community"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/D557E0AD08044669BB41BD5578AB7388.jpg?fit=364%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}