{"id":11396,"date":"2015-06-24T07:50:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T12:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=11396"},"modified":"2015-06-24T07:56:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T12:56:18","slug":"video-heartbreaking-photo-shows-cop-singing-to-little-girl-after-father-dies-in-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/06\/24\/video-heartbreaking-photo-shows-cop-singing-to-little-girl-after-father-dies-in-car-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Heartbreaking photo shows cop singing to little girl after father dies in car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A heartbreaking photo snapped by a bystander in Brighton, Colorado shows a police officer attempting to distract a 2-year-old girl after she and her family were involved in a deadly car wreck on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The devastating car crash killed the father instantly, so when officers arrived they did their best to distract the little girl while paramedics attended to the mother and three other children that were injured, KDVR, a local news station in Denver, reports.<\/p>\n<p>Brighton police officer Nick Struck, who has a 2-year-old daughter of his own attended to the child, singing her nursery rhymes in order to calm her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy daughter, who\u2019s the sweetest thing in the world when she falls down and cries, she wants \u2018Twinkle Twinkle Little Star\u2019 sung to her,\u201d Struck told KDVR. &#8220;So this girl, I was singing \u2018Twinkle Twinkle Little Star\u2019 and pointing to the lights in the fire truck.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/06\/23\/cop-sings-to-little-girl-car-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script height=\"351px\" width=\"475px\" src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/iframe.js#pbid=717e07edd27f4e34b5289ab4b1556c56&#038;ec=t4MWF0dTpt4MP2aT_QUtjkqZHtUEFNId\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cop-sings-to-scared-little-girl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11397\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cop-sings-to-scared-little-girl.jpg\" alt=\"cop sings to scared little girl\" width=\"567\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cop-sings-to-scared-little-girl.jpg 567w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cop-sings-to-scared-little-girl-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A heartbreaking photo snapped by a bystander in Brighton, Colorado shows a police officer attempting to distract a 2-year-old girl after she and her family were involved in a deadly car wreck on Thursday. The devastating car crash killed the father instantly, so when officers arrived they did their best to distract the little girl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video-gallery","category-editors-section","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11396","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=11396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11400,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11396\/revisions\/11400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}