{"id":14363,"date":"2016-03-10T08:53:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T13:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=14363"},"modified":"2016-03-10T08:53:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T13:53:18","slug":"video-oregon-usps-truck-driver-struck-by-rock-thrown-off-overpass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/03\/10\/video-oregon-usps-truck-driver-struck-by-rock-thrown-off-overpass\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Oregon USPS truck driver struck by rock thrown off overpass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/rock-smashes-usps-windshield.jpg\" alt=\"rock-smashes-usps-windshield\" width=\"474\" height=\"301\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/rock-smashes-usps-windshield.jpg 474w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/rock-smashes-usps-windshield-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><span id=\"WNStoryDateline\"><\/p>\n<p>PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) &#8211; <\/span>Tom Bennett is home on sick leave after a terrifying night on the job.<\/p>\n<p>Tom drives a semi-truck for the U.S. Postal Service and he was on his regular route late Monday night. Just as he passed under the NE 33rd Avenue overpass on I-84, Tom\u00a0says he heard a loud noise and felt a thump on his chest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see a big hole in the windshield right in front of me and at the same time, the glass was flying. My chest got hit and I thought it was a shotgun blast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tom grabbed his chest, feeling for blood or a gunshot wound. Nothing was there. But he had shards of glass in eyes and couldn\u2019t open them. Luckily, 30 years of commercial driving experience kicked in. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kptv.com\/story\/31431287\/postal-worker-struck-by-rock-thrown-off-overpass\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/KPTV.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=613108;hostDomain=www.kptv.com;playerWidth=475;playerHeight=360;isShowIcon=true;clipId=12274208;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixed\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><a title=\"KPTV - FOX 12\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kptv.com\">KPTV &#8211; FOX 12 via PEN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) &#8211; Tom Bennett is home on sick leave after a terrifying night on the job. Tom drives a semi-truck for the U.S. Postal Service and he was on his regular route late Monday night. Just as he passed under the NE 33rd Avenue overpass on I-84, Tom\u00a0says he heard a loud noise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14363","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\/14363","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=14363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14366,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14363\/revisions\/14366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}