{"id":17187,"date":"2018-12-24T20:33:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T01:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=17187"},"modified":"2018-12-24T20:33:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T01:33:31","slug":"police-officer-buys-presents-for-family-whose-car-broke-down-on-christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/police-officer-buys-presents-for-family-whose-car-broke-down-on-christmas-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officer buys presents for family whose car broke down on Christmas Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sometimes we forget. Maybe because a few bad apples give cops a bad name. Maybe because the bad ones are the ones that usually make the news. But not all cops are busy shooting unarmed black people…there are plenty of good cops who are truly awesome human beings, who serve and protect…and go above and beyond. This UK officer gets my vote for Santa’s holiday hero!<\/p>\n

The Article ‘Police officer buys presents for family whose car broke down on Christmas Eve’ originally appeared on http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/police-officer-buy-family-presents-south-wales-tesco-culverhouse-cross-christmas-eve-a8698691.html<\/a>
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Sometimes we forget. Maybe because a few bad apples give cops a bad name. Maybe because the bad ones are the ones that usually make the news. But not all cops are busy shooting unarmed black people…there are plenty of good cops who are truly awesome human beings, who serve and protect…and go above and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[582,586,590,589,565,587,588,585,591,456],"tags":[593,597,596,96,598,594,595,592,523,33],"class_list":["post-17187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-editorial-2","category-imho","category-imo","category-jamiegray","category-moregray","category-myopinion","category-opinion-3","category-sharedlink","category-jamie-gray","tag-editorial","tag-imho-blogger","tag-imo","tag-jamiegray","tag-link","tag-moregray","tag-myopinion","tag-opinion","tag-blog","tag-jamie-gray"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17279,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/police-officer-killed-female-colleague-while-playing-russian-roulette-authorities-say\/","url_meta":{"origin":17187,"position":0},"title":"Police officer killed female colleague while playing Russian roulette, authorities say","date":"January 26, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I thought the idea of Russian Roulette was to point the gun at yourself...otherwise, it's Murder Roulette. 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