{"id":26389,"date":"2019-05-12T09:42:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T14:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=26389"},"modified":"2019-05-12T09:42:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T14:42:19","slug":"mail-carrier-needs-surgery-after-dog-attack-in-washington-township","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/05\/12\/mail-carrier-needs-surgery-after-dog-attack-in-washington-township\/","title":{"rendered":"Mail carrier needs surgery after dog attack in Washington Township"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pn3N65Yw-H8\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. &#8211; A mail carrier needs surgery Friday after being attacked by a dog that jumped through the window of her truck in Washington Township, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Macomb County deputies confirmed they were called to the scene for reports of a dog bite.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses described the mail carrier&#8217;s injuries as &#8220;horrifying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Neighbor Christy Durkee said she heard a horn blaring in her driveway and found the mail carrier screaming hysterically and badly bleeding.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year veteran told her husband she was leaning into the mail box from her open window when a dog jumped through the window and started biting her. More at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/news\/mail-carrier-needs-surgery-after-dog-attack-in-washington-township-officials-say\">Click On Detroit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26390\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Detroit-Dog-Attack2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"509\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Detroit-Dog-Attack2.jpg 509w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Detroit-Dog-Attack2-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Detroit-Dog-Attack2-123x70.jpg 123w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Detroit-Dog-Attack2-254x141.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. &#8211; A mail carrier needs surgery Friday after being attacked by a dog that jumped through the window of her truck in Washington Township, according to police. Macomb County deputies confirmed they were called to the scene for reports of a dog bite. Witnesses described the mail carrier&#8217;s injuries as &#8220;horrifying.&#8221; Neighbor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26389","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\/26389","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=26389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26391,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26389\/revisions\/26391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}