{"id":22228,"date":"2018-01-15T10:03:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T15:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=22228"},"modified":"2018-01-15T10:03:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T15:03:09","slug":"usps-heroes-corner-brandon-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2018\/01\/15\/usps-heroes-corner-brandon-franklin\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS Heroe&#8217;s Corner &#8211; Brandon Franklin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"West Bloomfield, MI, Letter Carrier Brandon Franklin\" href=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/heroBrandonFranklin_large-story.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[33253]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-twentyfourteen-full-width size-twentyfourteen-full-width wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/heroBrandonFranklin_large-story.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/heroBrandonFranklin_large-story.jpg 900w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/heroBrandonFranklin_large-story-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/heroBrandonFranklin_large-story-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/heroBrandonFranklin_large-story-120x80.jpg 120w\" alt=\"Hero Brandon Franklin\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"link-caption\"><em>West Bloomfield, MI, Letter Carrier Brandon Franklin<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>USPS News Link &#8211; 1\/12\/18 &#8211; Letter Carrier Brandon Franklin was quick on his feet \u2014 literally \u2014 when he recently encountered a traffic emergency while delivering mail in West Bloomfield, MI.<\/p>\n<p>Franklin was driving on a busy road when he noticed a car moving erratically.<\/p>\n<p>When he attempted to pass the vehicle, he saw that the driver was slumped over the center console, apparently unconscious.<\/p>\n<p>The Postal Service employee turned on his hazard lights and pulled over, then sprinted to reach the runaway car, which he was able to safely access and bring to a stop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like Usain Bolt,\u201d the fleet-footed Franklin\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/news\/mail-carrier-stops-runaway-vehicle-in-west-bloomfield-township-after-driver-passes-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>told<\/i><\/a>\u00a0the local NBC station.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was hospitalized and was expected to recover from the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Bloomfield, MI, Letter Carrier Brandon Franklin USPS News Link &#8211; 1\/12\/18 &#8211; Letter Carrier Brandon Franklin was quick on his feet \u2014 literally \u2014 when he recently encountered a traffic emergency while delivering mail in West Bloomfield, MI. Franklin was driving on a busy road when he noticed a car moving erratically. When he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22228","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\/22228","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=22228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22229,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22228\/revisions\/22229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}