{"id":633,"date":"2009-02-25T11:01:25","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T16:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/neighborhood-watches-good-in-bad-economy.html"},"modified":"2009-02-25T11:01:25","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T16:01:25","slug":"neighborhood-watches-good-in-bad-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/neighborhood-watches-good-in-bad-economy.html","title":{"rendered":"Neighborhood Watches Good in Bad Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/3048308754\/\" title=\"Speed Limit 35 Neighborhood Watch by faul, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=0 align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3192\/3048308754_c41fc82764_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Speed Limit 35 Neighborhood Watch\" \/><\/a>\nCNN <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/CRIME\/02\/24\/neighborhood.watch.economy\/index.html\">has an interesting interactive graphic<\/a> about house safety:\n<blockquote>\nWhen the economy goes down, crime often rises, says Al Lenhardt, CEO and president of the National Crime Prevention Council.\n<\/blockquote>\nLenhardt sums it up:\n<blockquote>\nThey reduce crime and they reduce the fear of crime &#8230;.\nIt&#8217;s the golden rule &mdash; watching out for others.\n<\/blockquote>\nAlthough it&#8217;s not well known, Lowndes County, Georgia does have a neighborhood watch program (see picture of a sign), as do some of the cities in it, including I think Valdosta and Hahira.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CNN has an interesting interactive graphic about house safety: When the economy goes down, crime often rises, says Al Lenhardt, CEO and president of the National Crime Prevention Council. Lenhardt sums it up: They reduce crime and they reduce the fear of crime &#8230;. It&#8217;s the golden rule &mdash; watching out for others. Although it&#8217;s [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[40,72],"tags":[2111,2110,2112,2109,2789],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-safety","tag-al-lenhardt","tag-fear","tag-national-crime-prevention-council","tag-neighborhood-watch","tag-safety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-ad","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}