{"id":252193,"date":"2010-01-30T11:12:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T16:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef012877347f49970c"},"modified":"2010-01-30T11:31:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T16:31:06","slug":"cash-strapped-san-diego-set-to-sell-police-horses-and-tack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/252193","title":{"rendered":"Cash-strapped San Diego set to sell police horses and tack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Horse\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8314048970b \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8314048970b-500pi\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 5px 5px; float: right;\" title=\"Horse\"><\/img> <\/p>\n<p>The police horses that have patrolled San Diego&#8217;s Balboa Park are being sold at an online auction.<\/p>\n<p>The Police Department has ended its horse unit, which was organized in 1983, as a money-saving measure. The officers have been transferred to other duties, and their mounts and the tack are being sold.<\/p>\n<p>The auction is set for Feb. 1 through Feb 10 on the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicsurplus.com\">Publicsurplus.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The horses &#8212; Wam, Trigger, Major, Junior, Bret, Bandit and Austin &#8212; have long been public favorites, but the city is cash-strapped. <\/p>\n<p>No riding or handling is allowed, but potential bidders can see the horses Feb. 4, 9 a.m. to noon, at the police stables. Check the website.<\/p>\n<p>A third of the city&#8217;s police dogs are also being laid off.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Tony Perry in San Diego<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Bret, one of the police horses put up for auction. Credit: San Diego Police Department<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The police horses that have patrolled San Diego&#8217;s Balboa Park are being sold at an online auction. The Police Department has ended its horse unit, which was organized in 1983, as a money-saving measure. The officers have been transferred to other duties, and their mounts and the tack are being sold. The auction is set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4422,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4422"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}