{"id":21915,"date":"2016-04-21T19:44:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T02:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/man-dumps-non-toxic-dye-into-ketchikan-creek\/"},"modified":"2016-04-21T19:44:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T02:44:32","slug":"man-dumps-non-toxic-dye-into-ketchikan-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/man-dumps-non-toxic-dye-into-ketchikan-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dumps non-toxic dye into Ketchikan Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KETCHIKAN<\/strong> \u2014 While Ketchikan and Chicago might not have much in common, the First City and the Windy City can share in at least one thing this year: green water flowing through the heart of each city.<\/p>\n<p>A man, just before 4 p.m. Wednesday, dumped dye into Ketchikan Creek, causing it to turn green. Chicago famously dyes the Chicago River green in advance of St. Patrick\u2019s Day each year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just a prank,\u201d said Ketchikan Police Officer Charles Johnson after talking to the man who put dye in Ketchikan Creek. \u201cHe happened to come across some sort of plumbing dye that they use for testing \u2014 checking for leaks and stuff \u2014 and thought it\u2019d be funny to throw it in the creek and make people wonder why the creek was green.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man was not arrested or cited Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t think of anything criminal that he did,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cThey already confirmed that the substance was non-toxic. &#8230; I think the biggest problem was the slight panic of everybody trying to respond to a possible environmental disaster when there wasn\u2019t one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ketchikan Fire Department also responded to the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KETCHIKAN \u2014 While Ketchikan and Chicago might not have much in common, the First City and the Windy City can share in at least one thing this year: green water flowing through the heart of each city. A man, just before 4 p.m. Wednesday, dumped dye into Ketchikan Creek, causing it to turn green. Chicago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":21916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-21915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21915"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}