{"id":111730,"date":"2025-09-25T05:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T11:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/09\/25\/county-retires-ellertons-badge\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-09-25T05:13:24","modified_gmt":"2028-03-13T05:13:24","slug":"county-retires-ellertons-badge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/09\/25\/county-retires-ellertons-badge\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"County Retires Ellerton\u2019s Badge"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Roosevelt County Sheriff\u2019s Office will always remember Sgt. Michael Ellerton who died on July 1, 2025, after a four-year battle with cancer.<br \/>\n\t  Last week, the county commissioners  approved the sheriff\u2019s office\u2019s  request to retire Ellerton\u2019s badge, #13.<br \/>\n\t  Ellerton served Roosevelt County for six years and was known as the K-9 officer and drug enforcement deputy.<br \/>\n\t  Sheriff Jason Frederick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[13],"news-source":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112011,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111730\/revisions\/112011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111730"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=111730"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=111730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}