{"id":8399,"date":"2014-09-08T16:59:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T21:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=8399"},"modified":"2014-09-08T16:59:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T21:59:36","slug":"south-carolina-letter-carrier-saves-choking-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/09\/08\/south-carolina-letter-carrier-saves-choking-child\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina Letter Carrier Saves Choking Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/liteblue.usps.gov\/news\/link\/2014\/09sep\/images\/news09s2.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Brown\" width=\"139\" height=\"159\" \/><\/div><figcaption>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Greenville, SC, Letter Carrier Christopher Brown was delivering mail to a customer\u2019s home when a woman approached him carrying her infant son.<\/p>\n<p>She told Brown the child was choking on a piece of plastic wrapper, which she couldn\u2019t dislodge. By the time the woman reached Brown, the child was unconscious.<\/p>\n<p>Brown began performing the Heimlich maneuver. After a few tries, he cleared the plastic from the child\u2019s throat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA calm just came over me and I just wanted to get this child breathing again. The child was so little, I worried about squeezing him too hard with the Heimlich maneuver,\u201d Brown told the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"http:\/\/greertoday.com\/greer-sc\/mail-carrier-squeezes-the-life-back-into-a-suffocating-infant\/2014\/08\/19\/\">Greer Today<\/a><\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>news site.<\/p>\n<p>Brown later posed for photos with Eli, the child he saved, and the boy\u2019s parents, John and Stephanie Cooper.<\/p>\n<p>Brown, who credits the Postal Service with providing him with the training he needed to save Eli\u2019s life, told<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>Greer Today<\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>he once considered becoming a firefighter or police officer before choosing a career with USPS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you think about it, we are sometimes like first responders,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PHOTO: <\/strong>From left, John, Eli and Stephanie Cooper and Greenville, SC, Letter Carrier Christopher Brown. Photo: Greer Today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenville, SC, Letter Carrier Christopher Brown was delivering mail to a customer\u2019s home when a woman approached him carrying her infant son. She told Brown the child was choking on a piece of plastic wrapper, which she couldn\u2019t dislodge. By the time the woman reached Brown, the child was unconscious. Brown began performing the Heimlich [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399","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=8399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8402,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399\/revisions\/8402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}