{"id":9894,"date":"2015-01-29T08:46:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T13:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=9894"},"modified":"2015-01-29T08:46:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T13:46:45","slug":"letter-carrier-uses-carjack-to-rescue-trapped-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/01\/29\/letter-carrier-uses-carjack-to-rescue-trapped-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter carrier uses carjack to rescue trapped man"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Letter carrier uses carjack to rescue trapped man<\/h3>\n<p><time class=\"pubdate\" datetime=\"2015-01-28T18:32:00.000Z\">USPS\u00a01\/28\/15<\/time><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/liteblue.usps.gov\/news\/link\/2015\/01jan\/images\/news29s2.jpg\" alt=\"Hero Michael Short\" width=\"220\" \/><\/div>\n<h6>Fairland, IN, Letter Carrier Michael Short<\/h6>\n<p>There\u2019s a reason Postal Service employees are known as the eyes and ears of their communities. Just ask Fairland, IN, Letter Carrier Michael Short.<\/p>\n<p>Short was recently leaving a home after delivering mail when he heard yelling. He stopped his vehicle and got out, expecting to see a customer who wanted to give him outgoing mail.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Short saw a man trapped under a minivan that had collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>Short called 911, retrieved a carjack from his vehicle and raised the minivan. A police officer helped Short pull the man to safety.<\/p>\n<p>Police credit Short with saving the man, who was trapped for more than two hours. The man \u2014 who suffered several cracked ribs and received more than 100 stitches to his face and jaw \u2014 is recovering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter carrier uses carjack to rescue trapped man USPS\u00a01\/28\/15 Fairland, IN, Letter Carrier Michael Short There\u2019s a reason Postal Service employees are known as the eyes and ears of their communities. Just ask Fairland, IN, Letter Carrier Michael Short. Short was recently leaving a home after delivering mail when he heard yelling. He stopped his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9894","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\/9894","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=9894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9896,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9894\/revisions\/9896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}