{"id":26437,"date":"2019-05-22T09:09:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T14:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=26437"},"modified":"2019-05-22T09:09:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T14:09:14","slug":"wife-of-slain-postal-carrier-recalls-moment-she-learned-of-his-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/05\/22\/wife-of-slain-postal-carrier-recalls-moment-she-learned-of-his-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Wife of slain postal carrier recalls moment she learned of his death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w3.cdn.anvato.net\/player\/prod\/v3\/anvload.html?key=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%3D%3D\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- The family of a U.S. Postal carrier continues to grieve the shocking loss of Pepe Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p>He was killed while delivering mail in southwest Albuquerque.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been hard,\u201d said Nikki Hernandez, who was married to Pepe. \u201cWe miss him, we are all grieving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nikki said she became worried on April 22 when Pepe didn\u2019t come home at the usual time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard the doorbell ring and there was a group of people at the doorstep,&#8221; Nikki said. \u201cThey broke the news and it took a while to sink in. I couldn&#8217;t believe what I was hearing. It was the worst day of my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nikki wants people to know that her husband, an Iraq War veteran, served everyone, everywhere<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He would tell us when he came home from work he would change somebody&#8217;s flat tire on the side of the road,\u201d Nikki said. \u201cHe would repair somebody&#8217;s broken mailbox.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nikki said Pepe was a true family man. More at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kob.com\/albuquerque-news\/wife-of-slain-postal-carrier-recalls-moment-she-learned-of-his-death\/5362301\/\">KOB<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26193\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Jose-Hernandez.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Jose-Hernandez.jpg 406w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Jose-Hernandez-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Jose-Hernandez-80x55.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- The family of a U.S. Postal carrier continues to grieve the shocking loss of Pepe Hernandez. He was killed while delivering mail in southwest Albuquerque. &#8220;It&#8217;s been hard,\u201d said Nikki Hernandez, who was married to Pepe. \u201cWe miss him, we are all grieving.&#8221; Nikki said she became worried on April 22 when Pepe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26437","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\/26437","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=26437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26438,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26437\/revisions\/26438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}