{"id":19004,"date":"2017-04-08T07:45:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T12:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=19004"},"modified":"2017-04-08T07:45:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T12:45:37","slug":"illinois-letter-carrier-punched-by-attacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/04\/08\/illinois-letter-carrier-punched-by-attacker\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Letter Carrier Punched By Attacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\">4\/7\/17 &#8211; Chicago police said a U.S. Postal Service employee was sorting mail at the back of his truck on the 1500 block of Washington Avenue shortly after 12:45 p.m. April 4 when a man came up to him and said, &#8220;Hey, mailman,&#8221; then punched him in the face when he turned toward the attacker. The victim ran away from his attacker, but the man chased him, allegedly saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to kill you,&#8221; police reported. Nearby landscapers chased the attacker but couldn&#8217;t catch him. The victim was transported to a hospital for treatment of his injury, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19005\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Illinois-Carrier-Punched.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Illinois-Carrier-Punched.jpg 478w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Illinois-Carrier-Punched-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Illinois-Carrier-Punched-86x54.jpg 86w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Illinois-Carrier-Punched-120x74.jpg 120w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Illinois-Carrier-Punched-378x237.jpg 378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4\/7\/17 &#8211; Chicago police said a U.S. Postal Service employee was sorting mail at the back of his truck on the 1500 block of Washington Avenue shortly after 12:45 p.m. April 4 when a man came up to him and said, &#8220;Hey, mailman,&#8221; then punched him in the face when he turned toward the attacker. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19004","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=19004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19007,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19004\/revisions\/19007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}