{"id":800,"date":"2007-01-04T10:11:13","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T10:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=800"},"modified":"2007-01-04T10:11:13","modified_gmt":"2007-01-04T10:11:13","slug":"subway_hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/01\/04\/subway_hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Subway Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I&#8217;d seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/485218p-408507c.html\">this<\/a> in a movie, I would&#8217;ve said it was too far-fetched to believe: a 50-year-old man saved a 20-year-old stranger&#8217;s life after the other guy suffered some sort of seizure and fell from a New York subway platform onto the tracks. The older man &#8212; who was with his two young daughters, no less &#8212; dove onto the tracks himself and held the seizure victim down in the small space between the rails as a train roared past only inches above their heads. Neither man was badly injured, although Wesley Autrey, the hero of our story, emerged with a smear of grease on his stocking cap where the underside of the train grazed his head. The man he saved, Cameron Hollopeter, is in the hospital but I&#8217;d guess that&#8217;s as much to determine what happened to him <i>before<\/i> the train as from any damage the train did.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read the article I linked to above three times now, and I just keep shaking my head at the amazing-ness of it. How cool is it that there are people in the world who give enough of a damn (and who are fast-thinking enough) to do something like this for another human being? We all like to think that we&#8217;d be the hero ourselves if we found ourselves in a situation that required it, but how many of us would really rise to the occasion? I think I&#8217;d probably just stand there like an idiot. This story is both humbling and uplifting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familygreenberg.com\/2007\/01\/new-yorks-subway-superman.html\">Brian Greenberg<\/a> for letting me know about this&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I&#8217;d seen this in a movie, I would&#8217;ve said it was too far-fetched to believe: a 50-year-old man saved a 20-year-old stranger&#8217;s life after the other guy suffered some sort of seizure and fell from a New York subway platform onto the tracks. The older man &#8212; who was with his two young daughters, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}