{"id":6170,"date":"2013-05-31T06:44:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T11:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=6170"},"modified":"2013-05-31T06:44:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T11:44:30","slug":"apwu-ricin-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2013\/05\/31\/apwu-ricin-update\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU: Ricin Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/APWU-News2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6171\" title=\"APWU-News\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/APWU-News2-300x168.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/APWU-News2-300x168.gif 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/APWU-News2.gif 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> According to published reports, two suspicious letters mailed from Shreveport LA last week tested positive for ricin. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/30\/nyregion\/letter-sent-to-bloomberg-is-said-to-test-positive-for-ricin.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a> reported May 29 that one of the letters was addressed to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the other was addressed to a Washington DC lobbyist for his gun control campaign. The paper also reported, \u201cThe first letter was opened at a New York City mail center in Lower Manhattan on Friday, the police said. Although staff members at the mail center do not appear to have become ill, several police officers who came into contact with the letter\u2019s contents \u2018indicated some mild symptoms the next day, including diarrhea,\u2019 and they are being treated in hospitals, the New York Police Department\u2019s spokesman, Paul J. Browne, said on Wednesday afternoon. \u2018They\u2019re being checked out as a precaution.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For additional information on the most recent ricin threat, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/news\/webart\/2013\/13-069-ricin-ny-dc-130529.htm\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: According to published reports, two suspicious letters mailed from Shreveport LA last week tested positive for ricin. The New York Times reported May 29 that one of the letters was addressed to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the other was addressed to a Washington DC lobbyist for his gun control campaign. The paper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170","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=6170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6173,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170\/revisions\/6173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}