{"id":9691,"date":"2025-05-27T16:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T16:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ex-police-chief-convicted-of-murder-rape-escapes-prison\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T16:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T16:21:08","slug":"ex-police-chief-convicted-of-murder-rape-escapes-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ex-police-chief-convicted-of-murder-rape-escapes-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-police chief convicted of murder, rape escapes prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in Arkansas are searching for a former police chief convicted of murder and rape who escaped from prison Sunday.&nbsp; The Arkansas Department of Corrections said in a release that Grant Hardin, who previously served as the police chief for the town of Gateway in northwestern Arkansas&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/5319010-ex-police-chief-convicted-of-murder-rape-escapes-prison\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in Arkansas are searching for a former police chief convicted of murder and rape who escaped from prison Sunday.&nbsp; The Arkansas Department of Corrections said in a release that Grant Hardin, who previously served as the police chief for the town of Gateway in northwestern Arkansas&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}