{"id":19420,"date":"2017-05-11T18:18:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T23:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=19420"},"modified":"2017-05-11T18:18:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T23:18:52","slug":"video-memphis-mailman-attacked-while-delivering-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/05\/11\/video-memphis-mailman-attacked-while-delivering-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Memphis mailman attacked while delivering mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/wmctv.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=162903828;hostDomain=www.wmcactionnews5.com;playerWidth=630;playerHeight=355;isShowIcon=true;clipId=13314463;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixed'><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"WNStoryDateline\">MEMPHIS, TN (WMC) &#8211; <\/span>A mail carrier was attacked while on the job in Memphis on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis Police Department said a man was assaulted around 11:30 a.m. at Highland Meadows Apartments off Airways Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Postal Service spokesperson confirmed the man assaulted was a mail carrier who was going about his daily duties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That man didn&#8217;t do anything. He&#8217;s just doing his job,&#8221; neighbor Courtney Miller said. &#8220;I hope he&#8217;s alright because things like this shouldn&#8217;t be happening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The mail carrier was taken to the hospital. He is expected to be OK. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmcactionnews5.com\/story\/35383979\/mailman-attacked-while-delivering-mail-in-whitehaven\">WMC News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19421\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Memphis-Carrier-Attacked.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Memphis-Carrier-Attacked.jpg 516w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Memphis-Carrier-Attacked-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Memphis-Carrier-Attacked-86x54.jpg 86w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEMPHIS, TN (WMC) &#8211; A mail carrier was attacked while on the job in Memphis on Tuesday. Memphis Police Department said a man was assaulted around 11:30 a.m. at Highland Meadows Apartments off Airways Boulevard. U.S. Postal Service spokesperson confirmed the man assaulted was a mail carrier who was going about his daily duties. &#8220;That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19420","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\/19420","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=19420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19422,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19420\/revisions\/19422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}