{"id":27557,"date":"2019-11-05T11:05:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T16:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=27557"},"modified":"2019-11-05T11:07:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T16:07:06","slug":"iowa-residents-post-office-at-odds-with-city-over-pit-bull-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/11\/05\/iowa-residents-post-office-at-odds-with-city-over-pit-bull-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa residents, post office at odds with city over pit bull attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/utViURM2Tu0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>WEST DES MOINES, Iowa \u2014 Residents in a West Des Moines neighborhood voiced concerns Monday after a dog attack stopped their mail service.<\/p>\n<p>The city said it is doing everything possible to get door-to-door mail delivery back, but another victim and her neighbors said it is not enough.<\/p>\n<p>Erin Sears was visiting her mother on 9th Street in West Des Moines when she was bitten by a neighbor&#8217;s dog in June.<\/p>\n<p>She said she was carrying a car seat to the curb to be thrown away when the dog attacked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Their pit bull came flying out of the door, pinned (me) up against the side of my mom&#8217;s house and bit my left elbow,&#8221; Sears said.<\/p>\n<p>After an investigation, West Des Moines officials decided the dog had been provoked and was not vicious.<\/p>\n<p>In September, that same dog attacked a mail carrier and since then, the United States Postal Service has refused to deliver mail to the neighborhood. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcci.com\/article\/residents-post-office-at-odds-with-city-over-pit-bull-attacks\/29691768\">KCCI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27558\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Iowa-Dog-Problem.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Iowa-Dog-Problem.jpg 555w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Iowa-Dog-Problem-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST DES MOINES, Iowa \u2014 Residents in a West Des Moines neighborhood voiced concerns Monday after a dog attack stopped their mail service. The city said it is doing everything possible to get door-to-door mail delivery back, but another victim and her neighbors said it is not enough. Erin Sears was visiting her mother on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27557","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\/27557","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=27557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27560,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27557\/revisions\/27560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}