{"id":22027,"date":"2017-12-23T10:23:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T15:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=22027"},"modified":"2017-12-23T10:23:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T15:23:28","slug":"video-nations-longest-serving-mail-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/12\/23\/video-nations-longest-serving-mail-carrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Nation&#8217;s Longest Serving Mail Carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/KWTV.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=60593725;hostDomain=www.news9.com;playerWidth=630;playerHeight=355;isShowIcon=true;clipId=14002610;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News%20-%20Special%20Coverage;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay'><\/script><\/p>\n<p>OKLAHOMA CITY &#8211; This has been an extremely busy week for the US Postal service.<br \/>\nBut one letter carrier in OKC has been answering the call the week before every Christmas since the Eisenhower administration.<\/p>\n<p>Johnnie Bell joined the USPS in 1956 after serving in the Navy and still works at the downtown OKC post office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m going to tell you the truth. I like my job and its gives me something to do 8 hours a day. It keeps my mind operating,\u201d says the 85-year old. More at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news9.com\/story\/37130853\/red-dirt-diaries-nations-longest-serving-mail-carrier\">KWTV Oklahoma City<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22028\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Johnnie-Bell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Johnnie-Bell.jpg 396w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Johnnie-Bell-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Johnnie-Bell-80x55.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OKLAHOMA CITY &#8211; This has been an extremely busy week for the US Postal service. But one letter carrier in OKC has been answering the call the week before every Christmas since the Eisenhower administration. Johnnie Bell joined the USPS in 1956 after serving in the Navy and still works at the downtown OKC post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","category-editors-section","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22027","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=22027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22029,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22027\/revisions\/22029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}