{"id":13617,"date":"2016-01-01T10:02:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T15:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=13617"},"modified":"2016-01-01T10:02:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T15:02:55","slug":"video-proposed-bill-would-allow-utah-to-enlist-letter-carriers-to-assist-responders-during-natural-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/01\/01\/video-proposed-bill-would-allow-utah-to-enlist-letter-carriers-to-assist-responders-during-natural-disasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Proposed bill would allow Utah to enlist letter carriers to assist responders during natural disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY\u00a0&#8211; 12\/31\/15 &#8211;\u00a0A state lawmaker is proposing a bill that enlists your local postal worker to help out in the case of a natural disaster or an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it&#8217;s landmark for the state of Utah,\u201d said Karen Mayne, a Democrat who represents District 5 and serves as the Minority Whip in the Utah Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Mayne is running a bill that would draft U.S. Postal Service employees to help out in emergency situations and natural disasters, like an earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey would be support for our first responders, because if there was an earthquake, or anything like that, they know the community,\u201d Mayne said. <a href=\"http:\/\/fox13now.com\/2015\/12\/31\/proposed-bill-would-allow-utah-to-enlist-letter-carriers-to-assist-responders-during-natural-disasters\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script height=\"360px\" width=\"475px\" src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/iframe.js#pbid=3ce6404476914e86994d87aac3e4391b&#038;ec=I5YjJ4eTpOPkZUX7N95Ydr16cw4Ijc_e\"><\/script><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/senator-karen-mayne-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"senator-karen-mayne\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/senator-karen-mayne-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/senator-karen-mayne.jpg 566w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY\u00a0&#8211; 12\/31\/15 &#8211;\u00a0A state lawmaker is proposing a bill that enlists your local postal worker to help out in the case of a natural disaster or an emergency. \u201cI think it&#8217;s landmark for the state of Utah,\u201d said Karen Mayne, a Democrat who represents District 5 and serves as the Minority Whip in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13617","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\/13617","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=13617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13622,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13617\/revisions\/13622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}