{"id":21545,"date":"2026-03-25T18:55:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=21545"},"modified":"2026-03-25T18:55:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:55:39","slug":"state-trooper-up-on-a-mountain-in-the-woods-finds-missing-2-year-old-who-wont-stop-clutching-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=21545","title":{"rendered":"State Trooper Up On A Mountain In The Woods Finds Missing 2-Year-Old Who Won\u2019t Stop Clutching Him!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"89\" data-end=\"302\">Parents fear their children going missing, but kids sometimes wander off despite rules. When a 2-year-old girl went missing from her Ontario County home, New York State Trooper Brian Hotchkiss joined the search.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"304\" data-end=\"560\">Officers checked neighbors first, but found no leads. As darkness and cold approached, Hotchkiss climbed a nearby mountain to get a better view. 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When a 2-year-old girl went missing from her Ontario County home, New York State Trooper Brian Hotchkiss joined the search. Officers checked neighbors first, but found no leads. As darkness and cold approached, Hotchkiss climbed a nearby mountain to get a better&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=21545\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;State Trooper Up On A Mountain In The Woods Finds Missing 2-Year-Old Who Won\u2019t Stop Clutching Him!&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21547,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21545\/revisions\/21547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}