{"id":14233,"date":"2016-02-26T08:30:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T13:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=14233"},"modified":"2016-02-26T08:30:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T13:30:09","slug":"video-update-mailman-attacked-by-dogs-saved-by-75-year-old-and-84-year-old-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/02\/26\/video-update-mailman-attacked-by-dogs-saved-by-75-year-old-and-84-year-old-neighbors\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Update: Mailman attacked by dogs saved by 75-year-old and 84-year-old neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONGMONT, Colo.\u00a0&#8212; A mail carrier who was attacked by three dogs on Tuesday has a 75-year-old man and an 84-year-old man to thank.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are no heroes,&#8221; Jim Peeples and Earl Tifford said.<\/p>\n<p>Peeples and Tilford \u00a0both live on Ash Court in Longmont and when they saw their mailman in distress came running armed with a shovel and a trowel.<\/p>\n<p>Tilford, trowel in hand, ended up getting slightly bit by the animals as well.<\/p>\n<p>The mailman is resting comfortably and is expected to return to work soon. USPS officials say they are working on officially recognizing the men for their heroic action. <a href=\"http:\/\/kdvr.com\/2016\/02\/25\/mailman-attacked-by-dogs-saved-by-75-year-old-and-84-year-old-neighbors\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script height=\"360px\" width=\"475px\" src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/iframe.js#pbid=47658b6fe4a043a48f5296392ce1db7f&#038;ec=VrZnVjMTE6QJQSisYTPQ7IgEUQFMV7VA\"><\/script><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/old-guys-save-mailman.jpg\" alt=\"old-guys-save-mailman\" width=\"463\" height=\"294\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14234\" style=\"border: none;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/old-guys-save-mailman.jpg 463w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/old-guys-save-mailman-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGMONT, Colo.\u00a0&#8212; A mail carrier who was attacked by three dogs on Tuesday has a 75-year-old man and an 84-year-old man to thank. &#8220;We are no heroes,&#8221; Jim Peeples and Earl Tifford said. Peeples and Tilford \u00a0both live on Ash Court in Longmont and when they saw their mailman in distress came running armed with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14233","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\/14233","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=14233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14235,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14233\/revisions\/14235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}