{"id":26239,"date":"2019-04-27T09:35:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T14:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=26239"},"modified":"2019-04-27T09:35:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T14:35:23","slug":"phoenix-homeowner-pays-it-forward-to-mailman-making-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/04\/27\/phoenix-homeowner-pays-it-forward-to-mailman-making-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix homeowner Pays it Forward to mailman making a difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qwah_-tPQtY\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>PHOENIX (CBS 5) &#8211; The job isn&#8217;t exactly glamorous and there aren&#8217;t a lot of perks.<\/p>\n<p>But U.S. Postal carrier John Reyes loves his job and getting to know neighbors on his mail route in Phoenix&#8217;s Maryvale district.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want them to approach me and ask questions, say, &#8216;Hi, how was your day?'&#8221; said Reyes.<\/p>\n<p>One of the neighbors who have gotten to know Mailman John is Sherry Harrington.<\/p>\n<p>Harrington took a bad fall a few months ago and broke a bone in her back.<\/p>\n<p>She could barely get around on a walker.<\/p>\n<p>Mailman John heard how upset Harrington was about not being able to pull weeds and plant flowers that Mailman John hired a crew to come out and clean her front yard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t believe it,&#8221; said Harrington. &#8220;I could not believe that someone who just passes through the neighborhood every day, and really doesn&#8217;t live here would care that much, and he definitely does.&#8221; Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/pay_it_forward\/phoenix-homeowner-pays-it-forward-to-mailman-making-a-difference\/article_ec3dfbf0-67aa-11e9-8c4c-b348761eaa00.html\">AZFamily.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26240\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/John-Reyes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/John-Reyes.jpg 495w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/John-Reyes-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX (CBS 5) &#8211; The job isn&#8217;t exactly glamorous and there aren&#8217;t a lot of perks. But U.S. Postal carrier John Reyes loves his job and getting to know neighbors on his mail route in Phoenix&#8217;s Maryvale district. &#8220;I want them to approach me and ask questions, say, &#8216;Hi, how was your day?&#8217;&#8221; said Reyes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26239","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\/26239","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=26239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26241,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26239\/revisions\/26241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}