{"id":22292,"date":"2018-01-20T11:42:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T16:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=22292"},"modified":"2018-01-20T11:42:17","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T16:42:17","slug":"video-neighbors-throw-party-for-beloved-postman-mr-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2018\/01\/20\/video-neighbors-throw-party-for-beloved-postman-mr-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Neighbors throw party for beloved postman, &#8216;Mr. Bill&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NORTHJERSEY- Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/uw-media.northjersey.com\/video\/embed\/109571324?placement=embed\" width=\"540\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>RIDGEWOOD \u2014 Hundreds of neighbors packed into the banquet hall of St. Elizabeth&#8217;s church. Presents were stacked up on a fold-out table. Cake was cut. A DJ blared Journey&#8217;s tale of working-class love, &#8220;Don&#8217;t Stop Believin&#8217;.&#8221; But no bride or groom were in sight.<\/p>\n<p>The man of the hour, Bill Olave. The occasion, a thank you from the residents whose lives he touched over 17 years serving the same mail route on the West Side. .<\/p>\n<p>Being a mailman, Olave said, &#8220;It&#8217;s more than putting pieces of paper in tin boxes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While retirement is hardly in the works for the 52-year-old Ridgewood resident, a recent shakeup across the U.S. Postal Service required local offices to combine routes, shifting Olave to a new neighborhood. Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/story\/news\/bergen\/ridgewood\/2018\/01\/19\/neighbors-throw-party-beloved-postman-mr-bill\/1040738001\/\">NorthJersey.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22293\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Bill-Olave.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Bill-Olave.jpg 392w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Bill-Olave-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Bill-Olave-119x89.jpg 119w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIDGEWOOD \u2014 Hundreds of neighbors packed into the banquet hall of St. Elizabeth&#8217;s church. Presents were stacked up on a fold-out table. Cake was cut. A DJ blared Journey&#8217;s tale of working-class love, &#8220;Don&#8217;t Stop Believin&#8217;.&#8221; But no bride or groom were in sight. The man of the hour, Bill Olave. The occasion, a thank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22292","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\/22292","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=22292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22294,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22292\/revisions\/22294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}