{"id":26787,"date":"2019-07-15T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=26787"},"modified":"2019-07-15T08:48:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T13:48:00","slug":"family-urges-for-safe-return-of-missing-postal-worker-kierra-coles-9-months-after-disappearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/07\/15\/family-urges-for-safe-return-of-missing-postal-worker-kierra-coles-9-months-after-disappearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Family urges for safe return of missing postal worker Kierra Coles 9 months after disappearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/video\/embed\/?pid=5396186\" width=\"476\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\">CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; Family members of a missing postal worker are planning a news conference Monday urging for her safe return.<br \/>\n<\/span><br style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\">It&#8217;s been\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: #ffffff; outline: 0px; color: #316bc0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/pregnant-postal-worker-26-missing-from-south-side-for-one-week\/4447364\/\">nine months since Kierra Coles<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\">\u00a0was last seen on surveillance video leaving her home near 81st and Vernon in the Chatham neighborhood. Coles was pregnant at the time and due in April.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\">There&#8217;s a $46,000 reward for information leading to her whereabouts.<\/span><br style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/><br style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\">Police have\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: #ffffff; outline: 0px; color: #316bc0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/search-continues-for-missing-pregnant-postal-worker-kierra-coles\/4531752\/\">said previously<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\">\u00a0that &#8220;foul play is suspected&#8221; in her disappearance. <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/family-urges-for-safe-return-of-postal-worker-missing-for-9-months-\/5396172\/\">Read more<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25416\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Kierra-Coles2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Kierra-Coles2.jpg 436w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Kierra-Coles2-300x131.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; Family members of a missing postal worker are planning a news conference Monday urging for her safe return. It&#8217;s been\u00a0nine months since Kierra Coles\u00a0was last seen on surveillance video leaving her home near 81st and Vernon in the Chatham neighborhood. Coles was pregnant at the time and due in April. There&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26787","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\/26787","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=26787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26789,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26787\/revisions\/26789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}