{"id":25178,"date":"2018-12-24T09:27:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T14:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=25178"},"modified":"2018-12-24T09:27:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T14:27:06","slug":"ohio-postal-worker-praised-for-saving-kitten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2018\/12\/24\/ohio-postal-worker-praised-for-saving-kitten\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio postal worker praised for saving kitten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wtov9.com\/embed\/news\/local\/local-postal-worker-praised-for-saving-kitten?external-id=d0e9d5406ad941c5b2b300036c934086\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What started as a usual day for a Steubenville postal worker ended in some chilly waters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hear something crying and you look over and there is a kitten on the rock and it&#8217;s one of those situations where you don&#8217;t know what to do because I was going to get wet,&#8221; said postal worker Ashley Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley Taylor happened to be in the right place at the right time. Halfway through her route, she heard the crying kitten and called her sister to help. With a laundry basket and blanket in hand Ashley made a decision to go into the water to retrieve the animal that was stuck on a rock.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I didn&#8217;t, the current was probably going to take it away,&#8221; said Ashley Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley&#8217;s actions did not go unnoticed by a neighbor who happened to be walking by.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was genuine,&#8221; said Strachan. &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t let me see who can see this and pat me on my back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the two, the kitten now has a home and will be a Christmas gift to a little boy in the area. <a href=\"https:\/\/wtov9.com\/news\/local\/local-postal-worker-praised-for-saving-kitten\">WTOV<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25179\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Carrier-Saves-Kitten.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Carrier-Saves-Kitten.jpg 403w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Carrier-Saves-Kitten-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Carrier-Saves-Kitten-122x74.jpg 122w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Carrier-Saves-Kitten-120x74.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What started as a usual day for a Steubenville postal worker ended in some chilly waters. &#8220;I hear something crying and you look over and there is a kitten on the rock and it&#8217;s one of those situations where you don&#8217;t know what to do because I was going to get wet,&#8221; said postal worker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25178","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\/25178","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=25178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25180,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25178\/revisions\/25180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}