{"id":25232,"date":"2018-12-31T08:17:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=25232"},"modified":"2018-12-31T08:17:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:17:01","slug":"mailman-saves-cary-nc-mans-life-on-christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2018\/12\/31\/mailman-saves-cary-nc-mans-life-on-christmas-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Mailman saves Cary, NC man&#8217;s life on Christmas Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe id=\"18095193-iframe\" class=\"wral-embedded-player\" style=\"width: 576px; height: 324px; background-color: transparent; border: 0px none transparent; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/local\/video\/18095193\/?version=embedded_v2&amp;player_options=%257B%2522embedded_autoplay_next%2522%253Atrue%257D\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>12\/30\/18 &#8211; When you have 32 years with the U.S. Postal Service, a Cary mail route can become routine.<\/p>\n<p>But on Christmas Eve, Chris Petersen&#8217;s Pamlico Avenue mail drop was anything but.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was about halfway to the street, and the woman of the house came, opened the door and called out, \u201cSomebody help me; I think my husband is having a heart attack,\u2019\u201d Petersen said.<\/p>\n<p>Petersen and two neighbors, Jason and Joanie Peterson, ran in to help. Inside, they found Mike Hodgin, who had collapsed on the floor while cooking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had been doing the bacon,\u201d Joanie Peterson said. \u201cIt was all still out, and he was out flat with his back on the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hodgin wasn&#8217;t breathing. Petersen began CPR.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI immediately had to start doing chest compressions,\u201d Petersen said. \u201cI did that for I&#8217;m guessing approximately two minutes, at which time Mike took a big breath and opened his eyes. That was such a relief to see that.\u201d More at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/mailman-saves-cary-man-s-life-on-christmas-eve\/18095089\/\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25234\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Chris-Petersen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"429\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Chris-Petersen.jpg 429w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Chris-Petersen-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12\/30\/18 &#8211; When you have 32 years with the U.S. Postal Service, a Cary mail route can become routine. But on Christmas Eve, Chris Petersen&#8217;s Pamlico Avenue mail drop was anything but. \u201cI was about halfway to the street, and the woman of the house came, opened the door and called out, \u201cSomebody help me; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25232","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\/25232","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=25232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25235,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25232\/revisions\/25235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}