{"id":1496,"date":"2008-12-04T16:10:05","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T22:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2008-12-04T16:10:05","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T22:10:05","slug":"middletown-and-tinseltown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1496","title":{"rendered":"Middletown and Tinseltown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erik Estrada returns to Muncie for police patrols<br \/>\nDec 4 05:42 PM US\/Eastern<\/p>\n<p>MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) &#8211; Erik Estrada has returned to Muncie to take part in overnight police patrols in the city where he starred in the short-lived reality series &#8220;Armed &amp; Famous.&#8221; The former star of the 1970s motorcycle cop drama &#8220;CHiPs&#8221; is a reserve officer on the Muncie Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The 60-year-old actor plans to work the midnight shift for three nights this week, patrolling city streets from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>He took target practice at the police gun range on Wednesday. On Saturday, he plans to help officers at a charity event.<\/p>\n<p>Estrada filmed &#8220;Armed &amp; Famous&#8221; for CBS in Muncie in the winter of 2006-07. He and several other celebrities patrolled the city as reserve officers.<\/p>\n<p>He also returned to Muncie last winter to keep up his reserve officer status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erik Estrada returns to Muncie for police patrols Dec 4 05:42 PM US\/Eastern MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) &#8211; Erik Estrada has returned to Muncie to take part in overnight police patrols in the city where he starred in the short-lived reality series &#8220;Armed &amp; Famous.&#8221; The former star of the 1970s motorcycle cop drama &#8220;CHiPs&#8221; is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1496\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Middletown and Tinseltown<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}