{"id":198315,"date":"2024-06-02T12:46:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T16:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=198315"},"modified":"2024-06-02T12:46:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T16:46:53","slug":"photos-rome-police-officers-rescue-baby-deer-from-storm-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=198315","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Rome Police Officers Rescue Baby Deer from Storm Drain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\ud83e\udd8c <strong>Going Above and Beyond:<\/strong> Police officers in Rome recently demonstrated that their duties extend far beyond fighting crime when they came to the rescue of a helpless baby deer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83c\udd98 <strong>The Rescue:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sgt. Aaron Thacker and his team responded to a call in West Rome about a baby deer trapped in a storm drain.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The officers successfully rescued the young animal from the drain.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The baby deer was safely released into the nearby woods and was seen running off, unharmed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udc6e <strong>&#8220;Other Duties as Assigned&#8221;:<\/strong> The Rome Police Department acknowledged that sometimes, police work involves unexpected tasks, like wildlife rescue, falling under the category of &#8220;other duties as assigned.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Photos:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:50.00000%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"960\" data-id=\"198316\" data-link=\"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?attachment_id=198316\" data-url=\"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/441944115_887291346776301_2280034213407599086_n-720x694.jpg\" data-width=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/thegeorgiasun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/441944115_887291346776301_2280034213407599086_n-720x694.jpg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:50.00000%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"960\" data-id=\"198317\" data-link=\"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?attachment_id=198317\" data-url=\"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/446872608_887290883443014_2750939012533456054_n-720x694.jpg\" data-width=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/thegeorgiasun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/446872608_887290883443014_2750939012533456054_n-720x694.jpg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83e\udd8c Going Above and Beyond: Police officers in Rome recently demonstrated that their duties extend far beyond fighting crime when they came to the rescue of a helpless baby deer. \ud83c\udd98 The Rescue: \ud83d\udc6e &#8220;Other Duties as Assigned&#8221;: The Rome Police Department acknowledged that sometimes, police work involves unexpected tasks, like wildlife rescue, falling under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":198317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4295],"tags":[10848],"class_list":["post-198315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-heroes","tag-deer","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}