{"id":12455,"date":"2015-09-22T14:51:32","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T19:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=12455"},"modified":"2015-09-22T14:51:32","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T19:51:32","slug":"texas-employee-uses-vehicle-to-shield-injured-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/09\/22\/texas-employee-uses-vehicle-to-shield-injured-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas employee uses vehicle to shield injured woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title-full\">USPS Heroes\u2019 corner<\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"link-subhead-full\">Texas employee uses vehicle to shield injured woman<\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><span class=\"entry-date\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2015-09-22T10:40:21+00:00\">USPS News Link &#8211; 9\/22\/15<\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content full\">\n<div class=\"post-thumbnail\"><a title=\"Granbury, TX, Rural Carrier Winter Rexroat\" href=\"http:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/hero_winter_rexroat_largestory.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-twentyfourteen-full-width wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/hero_winter_rexroat_largestory.jpg\" alt=\"Granbury, TX, Rural Carrier Winter Rexroat\" width=\"353\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"link-caption\">Granbury, TX, Rural Carrier Winter Rexroat<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<p>Granbury, TX, Rural Carrier Winter Rexroat was delivering mail when she noticed a woman lying in the road. The woman was unresponsive, so Rexroat called 911 and positioned her vehicle to shield her.<\/p>\n<p>Rexroat stayed with the woman until paramedics arrived and treated her. The local fire chief, Stephen Boynton, later wrote to Postmaster Tamara Wade to thank Rexroat, whose name he failed to get at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe your employee was instrumental in this situation having a positive outcome,\u201d Boynton wrote, praising Rexroat for making the scene safe for the victim and the emergency responders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you and job well done to your employee,\u201d Boynton added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USPS Heroes\u2019 corner Texas employee uses vehicle to shield injured woman USPS News Link &#8211; 9\/22\/15 Granbury, TX, Rural Carrier Winter Rexroat Granbury, TX, Rural Carrier Winter Rexroat was delivering mail when she noticed a woman lying in the road. The woman was unresponsive, so Rexroat called 911 and positioned her vehicle to shield her. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12455","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=12455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12457,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12455\/revisions\/12457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}