{"id":53446,"date":"2020-06-09T18:53:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T00:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/emergency-responders-celebrate-5-year-olds-birthday-with-a-parade\/"},"modified":"2020-06-10T00:53:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T00:53:52","slug":"emergency-responders-celebrate-5-year-olds-birthday-with-a-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/emergency-responders-celebrate-5-year-olds-birthday-with-a-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency responders celebrate 5-year-old\u2019s birthday with a parade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=dc270028-a2a3-479a-b5c3-78f5d242cbd5&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"Emergency responders celebrated Derrick McMullen\u2019s fifth birthday Monday with a parade down his street in Durango.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Emergency responders celebrated Derrick McMullen\u2019s fifth birthday Monday with a parade down his street in Durango.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jonathan Romeo\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The novel coronavirus didn\u2019t put a damper on Derrick McMullen\u2019s 5th birthday party after his mom, Liz, organized an emergency responder parade of vehicles to come down their street.<\/p>\n<p>Liz McMullen said her son was born with transverse myelitis, a neurological disorder, and was told by doctors he would never walk.<\/p>\n<p>Derrick has 80% recovered, and his mom likes to go over and above for his birthdays.<\/p>\n<p>A number of agencies, including Durango Police Department, the Durango Fire Protection District and La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s Office, participated Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always like to give him one day that\u2019s extra special,\u201d Liz McMullen said. \u201cAnd he loves police, firemen, all emergency service people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McMullen says she likes to go over and above for her son\u2019s birthdays<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[747,714,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-53446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-children","tag-human-interest","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53446"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=53446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}