{"id":24069,"date":"2011-01-19T04:04:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T04:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/camden_new_jersey_police_and_firefighters_turn_in_their_gear\/"},"modified":"2011-01-19T04:04:04","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T04:04:04","slug":"camden_new_jersey_police_and_firefighters_turn_in_their_gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24069","title":{"rendered":"Camden, New Jersey,  Police and Firefighters turn in their gear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a solemn display, laid-off firefighters and police officers lined up Tuesday to turn in their helmets and badges \u201d\u201d symbols of deep budget cuts that were destined to further erode the quality of life in one of the nation&#8217;s most impoverished and crime-ridden cities.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly half the Camden police force, including civilians, and about one-third of its firefighters lost their jobs as city leaders sought to balance the budget amid falling tax revenue and diminishing aid from the state.<\/p>\n<p>In all, the city laid off 335 workers \u201d\u201d about one-sixth of its employees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-01-18\/deep-layoffs-take-effect-in-struggling-camden-nj.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a solemn display, laid-off firefighters and police officers lined up Tuesday to turn in their helmets and badges \u201d\u201d symbols of deep budget cuts that were destined to further erode the quality of life in one of the nation&#8217;s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24069\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,615,149,151,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-city-government","category-economy","category-politics-in-general","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}