{"id":4454,"date":"2016-02-09T09:03:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T17:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/jpd-officer-finds-missing-boy-in-playground\/"},"modified":"2016-02-09T09:03:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T17:03:47","slug":"jpd-officer-finds-missing-boy-in-playground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/jpd-officer-finds-missing-boy-in-playground\/","title":{"rendered":"JPD officer finds missing boy in playground"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police officers reunited a missing child with his family after what appears to have been a two-hour search in the Mendenhall Valley.<\/p>\n

At approximately 11 a.m. Monday, Juneau Police Department officials put out a request on the official JPD Facebook page to help find 8-year-old Joshua Anderson.<\/p>\n

Anderson reportedly did not want to go to school and left his bus stop near Slate and Canyon drives, the Facebook post states. A school employee notified the boy\u2019s mother at 9:10 a.m. that he was absent and the family began their search.<\/p>\n

Two hours after JPD\u2019s Facebook post, JPD received a tip that a boy was seen in a neighborhood playground, and an officer searching the area on foot was able to locate the boy under the playground equipment.<\/p>\n

The boy has since been reunited with his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Police officers reunited a missing child with his family after what appears to have been a two-hour search in the Mendenhall Valley. At approximately 11 a.m. Monday, Juneau Police Department officials put out a request on the official JPD Facebook page to help find 8-year-old Joshua Anderson. Anderson reportedly did not want to go to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-4454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454","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=4454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4454"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}