{"id":15348,"date":"2017-09-20T13:59:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T13:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/?p=15348"},"modified":"2017-09-20T13:59:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T13:59:21","slug":"off-duty-rutherford-county-sheriffs-deputy-saves-two-drowning-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/?p=15348","title":{"rendered":"Off Duty Rutherford County Sheriff&#8217;s Deputy saves two drowning children"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgnsradio.com\/off-duty-rutherford-county-sheriffs-deputy-saves-two-drowning-children-cms-41516\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WGNS Radio<\/a>) \u2013 Rescuing two young sisters from a potential drowning earned School Resource Officer Jeff DeGennaro the Officer of the Month award in August from Ford of Murfreesboro.<\/p>\n<p>SRO DeGennaro was off duty at his subdivision swimming pool when he saw the two sisters estimated to be 3 and 5 struggle to swim and quickly sink to the bottom of the pool, said SRO Capt. Barry Hendrixson.<\/p>\n<p>The SRO jumped in fully clothed and rescued the two sisters from the bottom of the pool, Hendrixson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeGennaro told me, \u2018I thanked God I was in the right place and observant at that exact moment,'\u201d Hendrixson said.<\/p>\n<p>General Manager Jason Borowski of Ford of Murfreesboro presented DeGennaro with an engraved watch for being Officer of the Month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgnsradio.com\/off-duty-rutherford-county-sheriffs-deputy-saves-two-drowning-children-cms-41516\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE\u203a\u203a<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(WGNS Radio) \u2013 Rescuing two young sisters from a potential drowning earned School [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":15349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15350,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15348\/revisions\/15350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}