{"id":43879,"date":"2014-11-27T22:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T02:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=43879"},"modified":"2014-11-27T22:00:52","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T02:00:52","slug":"sjindy-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/sjindy-52\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Johns Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/141128date.jpg\" alt=\"141128date\" width=\"500\" height=\"50\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43881\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/chiefs.jpg\" alt=\"chiefs\" width=\"466\" height=\"448\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44019\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Three generations of St. Johns Chiefs of Police:<\/strong> <em>Future Chief Kyle Knight and Former Chief Lyle French were on hand Wednesday to wish Chief Mike Madden well in his retirement.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chief Mike Madden&#8217;s Retirement party<\/strong><br \/>\nby Maralyn Fink<br \/>\nCamera ready, I&#8217;m on assignment to cover the Chief&#8217;s party.<br \/>\nI arrived and suddenly felt like I was in a Dragnet episode. I walked the perimeter of the room with well-wishers wanting to honor the Chief. One thing I felt was safe with many police officers around and some from outside our area.<br \/>\nIt was a very cheerful crowd all sharing stories to each other about the honoree.<br \/>\nMany expressed their feelings on how the Chief helped this community and especially the kids and were saddened to see him leave.<br \/>\nHowever, I think they will all be seeing Mike at one time or another.<br \/>\nThere were special presentations to the Chief for his accomplishments in his 24 years of service to our community.<br \/>\nThere also was a roasting of sorts with emcee Jim Ostrowski. Jim did a fantastic job in this role, and there were many laughs as he told about Mike.<br \/>\nI was able to meet Chief Madden&#8217;s wife, sons, daughters-in-law and grandchildren some of whom live a distance away.<br \/>\nVisiting will be his top priority as of his last day on Monday when Kyle Knight will take the reigns.<br \/>\nOn behalf of the SJIndy, we wish you well and will miss seeing you speeding around town!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/madden2.jpg\" alt=\"madden2\" width=\"426\" height=\"399\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44033\" \/><br \/>\nPS: The food was great!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/resolution.jpg\" alt=\"resolution\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44022\" \/><br \/>\nMayor Beaman presents Police Chief Madden a Resolution of Appreciation for his 24 years with the City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three generations of St. Johns Chiefs of Police: Future Chief Kyle Knight and Former Chief Lyle French were on hand Wednesday to wish Chief Mike Madden well in his retirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}