{"id":12077,"date":"2015-08-21T07:27:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T12:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=12077"},"modified":"2015-08-21T07:27:36","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T12:27:36","slug":"video-man-in-bucket-hat-calmly-points-gun-at-postal-worker-robs-northeast-philadelphia-post-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/08\/21\/video-man-in-bucket-hat-calmly-points-gun-at-postal-worker-robs-northeast-philadelphia-post-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Man in Bucket Hat Calmly Points Gun at Postal Worker, Robs Northeast Philadelphia Post Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man dressed as if he was ready to go fishing held up a Northeast Philadelphia post office Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The man \u2013 described by postal workers as being in his 50s or 60s with a bushy gray beard \u2013 wore a bucket hat, striped shirt and tan cargo shorts when he walked into the post office at 6382 Castor Avenue around 4:20 p.m. and pointed a gun at a postal worker.<\/p>\n<p>The man \u2013 who remained calm and collected throughout the incident \u2013 grabbed cash, money orders and more before making his getaway on foot, said the US Postal Inspection Service. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/weird\/Post-Office-Theft-Castor-Avenue-322467312.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/portableplayer\/?cmsID=322473961&amp;videoID=LFb6zCEwWbwu&amp;origin=nbcphiladelphia.com&amp;sec=news&amp;subsec=weird&amp;width=475&amp;height=360\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/philly-post-office-robbery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12078\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/philly-post-office-robbery.jpg\" alt=\"philly-post-office-robbery\" width=\"464\" height=\"308\" style=\"border: none;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/philly-post-office-robbery.jpg 464w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/philly-post-office-robbery-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man dressed as if he was ready to go fishing held up a Northeast Philadelphia post office Thursday afternoon. The man \u2013 described by postal workers as being in his 50s or 60s with a bushy gray beard \u2013 wore a bucket hat, striped shirt and tan cargo shorts when he walked into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12077","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=12077"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12081,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12077\/revisions\/12081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}