{"id":67738,"date":"2016-09-01T08:28:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T12:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67738"},"modified":"2016-09-01T08:28:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T12:28:15","slug":"art-pollard-and-his-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67738","title":{"rendered":"Art Pollard and his medals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=67739\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67739\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Art-Pollard-500x248.jpg\" alt=\"Art Pollard\" width=\"500\" height=\"248\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-67739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Art-Pollard-500x248.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Art-Pollard-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Art-Pollard-768x380.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Art-Pollard.jpg 824w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Bobo sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khou.com\/features\/navy-vets-stolen-medals-returned-thousands-of-miles\/309653645\">the story about Art Pollard<\/a>, a 68-year-old Navy retiree. When he retired to Alabama, he gave his medals to his daughter who lived in Modesto, California. A short time later, her apartment was robbed and the thieves took Art&#8217;s medals with them. <\/p>\n<p>The medals were found in a stolen car shortly afterward and they&#8217;ve been sitting in an evidence room for years until officers in Modesto decided to return the awards to their rightful owner;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Recently, Modesto police said their Property and Evidence Technicians were going through items ready to be trashed when they discovered the military medals.<\/p>\n<p>Police said one of their technicians did some research and tracked Pollard down. When the detective called him, he was shocked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t believe he went to all that trouble, just to find me,\u201d Pollard said.<\/p>\n<p>Pollard said the Modesto Police Department mailed the medals to a local Alabama police department where he was reunited with his medals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends us a link to the story about Art Pollard, a 68-year-old Navy retiree. When &hellip; <a title=\"Art Pollard and his medals\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67738\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Art Pollard and his medals<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}