{"id":26145,"date":"2019-04-17T08:58:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T13:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=26145"},"modified":"2019-04-17T09:01:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T14:01:16","slug":"michigan-mail-carrier-attacked-by-dog-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/04\/17\/michigan-mail-carrier-attacked-by-dog-speaks-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan mail carrier attacked by dog speaks out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0uD2KKvyTFk\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>4\/16\/19 &#8211; For years the United States Postal Service has tried to make people understand how serious dog attacks are.<\/p>\n<p>Today they offered living proof in a mail carrier from Lapeer whose nose was bitten off.<\/p>\n<p>They also introduced mail carrier Todd Bridges.<\/p>\n<p>Bridges survived a vicious attack that was caught on camera<\/p>\n<p>He says,&#8221;I felt like I was fighting for my life, my kids.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bridges was working his route on Detroit&#8217;s west side when a pit bull attacked.<\/p>\n<p>He says he did everything he could to fight off the dog, even using his dog spray.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I sprayed in his face, eyes, his mouth and it was nothing. It&#8217;s like it didn&#8217;t even bother him. Didn&#8217;t even faze him.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnem.com\/news\/michigan-mail-carrier-attacked-by-dog-speaks-out\/article_c03fbe22-6056-11e9-ae70-ab01242039d2.html\">WNEM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read PEN&#8217;s original coverage <a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/02\/video-dog-viciously-attacks-mail-carrier-in-detroit\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26146\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Nose-bitten-off.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Nose-bitten-off.jpg 451w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Nose-bitten-off-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Nose-bitten-off-80x55.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4\/16\/19 &#8211; For years the United States Postal Service has tried to make people understand how serious dog attacks are. Today they offered living proof in a mail carrier from Lapeer whose nose was bitten off. They also introduced mail carrier Todd Bridges. Bridges survived a vicious attack that was caught on camera He says,&#8221;I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26145","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\/26145","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=26145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26149,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26145\/revisions\/26149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}