{"id":10834,"date":"2015-05-06T06:53:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T11:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=10834"},"modified":"2015-05-06T06:53:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T11:53:42","slug":"rural-carrier-protects-customer-from-charging-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/05\/06\/rural-carrier-protects-customer-from-charging-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural carrier protects customer from charging dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Heroes\u2019 corner<\/h1>\n<h2>Rural carrier protects customer from charging dog<\/h2>\n<p><time class=\"pubdate\" datetime=\"2015-05-05T14:29:00.000Z\">USPS News Link &#8211;\u00a05\/5\/15<\/time><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/liteblue.usps.gov\/news\/link\/2015\/05may\/images\/news06s2.jpg\" alt=\"Melissa Dudley hero2\" width=\"220\" \/><\/div>\n<h6>Wylie, TX, Rural Carrier Melissa Dudley<\/h6>\n<p>Wylie, TX, Rural Carrier Melissa Dudley was on her route recently when she saw a large dog running toward a man who was going to his mailbox.<\/p>\n<p>The dog was barking and the man, 83, was having difficulty walking. Dudley pulled her vehicle in front of the man until neighbors arrived and got the dog under control.<\/p>\n<p>The man\u2019s wife later wrote to Postmaster Marsha Mendoza to praise Dudley\u2019s quick thinking. \u201cWe are so grateful for her,\u201d the woman wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Dudley, the daughter of Postal Service employees, also received praise from Mendoza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt makes me even more proud of her actions that she didn\u2019t hesitate to put herself out there to protect our customer,\u201d Mendoza said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heroes\u2019 corner Rural carrier protects customer from charging dog USPS News Link &#8211;\u00a05\/5\/15 Wylie, TX, Rural Carrier Melissa Dudley Wylie, TX, Rural Carrier Melissa Dudley was on her route recently when she saw a large dog running toward a man who was going to his mailbox. The dog was barking and the man, 83, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10836,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10834\/revisions\/10836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}