{"id":4706,"date":"2007-01-15T18:50:35","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T18:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4706"},"modified":"2007-01-15T18:50:35","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T18:50:35","slug":"if-you-think-of-sheriffs-you-think-of-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2007\/01\/if-you-think-of-sheriffs-you-think-of-horses\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;If you think of sheriffs, you think of horses&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A better picture could not be found.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"blocked\"><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"5941297_BG1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/images\/5941297_BG1.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" align=\"right\"\/>The swearing in ceremony looked more like a scene from an old western movie.<\/p>\n<p>From his palomino, Lightning, to his cowboy boots, DeKalb County&#8217;s new Sheriff Jimmy Harris fits the part.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/waff.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=5941297&#038;nav=menu62_1_10\" class=\"external external_icon\">&#8220;I rode my horse up the courthouse steps,&#8221; said Harris.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s something Harris calls a dream come true.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Growing up as a child, if you think of sheriffs, you think of horses.  And it&#8217;s just part of me.  I&#8217;ve wanted to be sheriff all my life and started dreaming about it since about 1963.  And you know, fooling with horses like I have all my life, I just, I wanted to come in on a horse,&#8221; said Harris.   <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/waff.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=5941297&#038;nav=menu62_1_10\" class=\"external external_icon\">waff news<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A better picture could not be found. The swearing in ceremony looked more like a scene from an old western movie. From his palomino, Lightning, to his cowboy boots, DeKalb County&#8217;s new Sheriff Jimmy Harris fits the part. &#8220;I rode my horse up the courthouse steps,&#8221; said Harris. It&#8217;s something Harris calls a dream come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin","category-alabama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}