{"id":14796,"date":"2016-07-13T12:41:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T16:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=14796"},"modified":"2017-09-20T08:52:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T12:52:09","slug":"14796","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/14796\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Paulding Putnam Electric Issues Warning About Popular \u201cPokemon Go\u201d Game<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PPEC is warning the general public to never attempt to climb poles or go over a fence to enter into a substation.<br \/>\nThe warning comes after hearing the \u201cPokemon Go\u201d game, has players drive to different locations to catch Pokemon. Online threads suggest there is an electric type of Pokemon being caught near substations and transformers.<br \/>\n\u201cElectrical substations and transformers are extremely dangerous and should not be considered as gaming locations. We don\u2019t want anyone to lose their life over a game,\u201d stated CEO\/General Manager George Carter.<br \/>\nIf someone sees activity where a person is trying to get into a substation or climb one of our electrical poles, you are encouraged to call 9-1-1 first and then our office at 1-800-686-2357.<br \/>\nPaulding Putnam Electric Co-op, located in Paulding, Ohio., is an electric utility cooperative serving over 12,900 members in Paulding, Putnam, Defiance, Van Wert and Allen counties in Ohio and Adams and Allen counties in Indiana. For more information about the cooperative visit PPEC.coop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paulding Putnam Electric Issues Warning About Popular \u201cPokemon Go\u201d Game PPEC is warning the general public to never attempt to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2301],"tags":[59,5659,5660,1995,5661,1948],"class_list":["post-14796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news","tag-paulding","tag-pokemon","tag-pokemon-go","tag-ppec","tag-saftey","tag-warning"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2YQd9-14796","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 06:36:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}