{"id":396431,"date":"2026-09-11T01:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T01:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396431\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T01:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T01:52:13","slug":"former-florida-state-lineman-maurice-smith-joins-tallahassee-police-department-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396431\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Florida State lineman Maurice Smith joins Tallahassee Police Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. &#8212; For years, Maurice Smith helped protect Florida State\u2019s offensive line. Now, he is protecting Tallahassee in a different uniform.<\/p>\n<p>Smith finished his Seminole career with 52 career starts, the second-most in Florida State history. He became a fixture on the offensive line and earned honors for both his play and leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Smith has traded garnet and gold for Tallahassee Police Department blue and gold, bringing the same discipline, leadership and commitment to protecting and serving the community.<\/p>\n<p>After years of protecting quarterbacks, Smith is now focused on protecting Tallahassee, continuing what those around him describe as a commitment to answering the call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. &#8212; For years, Maurice Smith helped protect Florida State\u2019s offensive line. Now, he is protecting Tallahassee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-396431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}