{"id":101,"date":"2006-08-02T08:26:10","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T12:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stacyhorn.com\/restless2\/?p=101"},"modified":"2015-09-16T07:19:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T11:19:44","slug":"congratulations-det-stradford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, Det. Stradford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wendellpro.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/restless\/images\/Wendellpro.jpg\" width=\"207\" height=\"351\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" \/> Det. Wendell Stradford, (former Transit guy) makes an arrest [the article has since been removed].  From the piece:  &#8220;Franklin praised cold-case Detective Wendell Stradford and Assistant DA Nitin Savur for hunting down Montgomery.&#8221;  This was for a 1974 murder.  In some ways I think the older the better.  Those cases are sadder, they are the most forgotten, and the hardest to solve.  After two years, if a murder hasn&#8217;t been solved, the chances of it ever being solved goes down to .01%.  Solving a 32 year old case was really beating the odds.<\/p>\n<p>Good work, Wendell and everyone who worked with him.  (The picture is from one of Stradford&#8217;s promotion ceremonies.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Det. Wendell Stradford, (former Transit guy) makes an arrest [the article has since been removed]. From the piece: &#8220;Franklin praised cold-case Detective Wendell Stradford and Assistant DA Nitin Savur for hunting down Montgomery.&#8221; This was for a 1974 murder. In some ways I think the older the better. Those cases are sadder, they are the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piV6s-1D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1618,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/1618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}