{"id":23905,"date":"2017-02-08T16:20:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T00:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23905"},"modified":"2017-02-08T16:20:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T00:20:41","slug":"paul-newman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/paul-newman\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Newman&#8217;s Friend, A Cop Named Joe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/pachaf.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"329\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>I once knew a guy who had been a New York cop. He looked exactly, and I mean exactly, like Paul Newman. You couldn&#8217;t tell them apart.\u00a0The thespian and the cop both ended up in California\u2014Newman once lived in Hollywood and the police officer moved to Orange County. At one time, I actually had a photo of the two. Newman had his elbow resting on his friend&#8217;s shoulder. The only difference between them was the huge smile on Joe&#8217;s face\u2014did he ever have a reason to smile!<\/p>\n<p>Joe had been in danger all his life\u2014and survived. He spent three decades working as a cop in the worst part of New York&#8217;s Bronx. His 41st precinct was nicknamed, &#8220;Ft. Apache,&#8221; and Paul Newman starred in a movie about the horrors that occurred in the South Bronx regularly. Joe protected Paul while the film was being shot&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/people\/joe-paul-newman.html\">Read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By C. MacDonald I once knew a guy who had been a New York cop. He looked exactly, and I mean exactly, like Paul Newman. You couldn&#8217;t tell them apart.\u00a0The thespian and the cop both ended up in California\u2014Newman once lived in Hollywood and the police officer moved to Orange County. At one time, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23905"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}