{"id":8309,"date":"2015-02-23T04:43:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T04:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8309"},"modified":"2015-02-23T04:43:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T04:43:20","slug":"this-is-what-i-call-public-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8309","title":{"rendered":"This is what I call &#039;public service&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Nir Barkat should become the face of public servants everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Who is this man? He is the mayor of Jerusalem who, along with his bodyguard, wrestled a knife-wielding attacker to the ground and held him there until police arrived.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/jerusalem-mayor-nir-barkat-wrestles-knife-attacker-ground-n310611<\/p>\n<p>The 55-year-old mayor saved several people from possible injury or death from the attacker who apparently pulled the knife out in a crowd.<\/p>\n<p>When U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., was mayor of Newark, N.J., he was known to roll up his sleeves and offer a hand to residents of his city. I recall once when the Beaumont, Texas, fire chief, Pete Shelton, answered a call from a resident who said an alligator was lurking in a culvert in the rear of a home; Shelton answered the call and wrestled the medium-sized gator out of the water, tied it up, and released it in a bayou.<\/p>\n<p>Nir Barkat&#8217;s response to the incident, which he witnessed from his car, speaks well of his commitment to serving the people who elected him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nir Barkat should become the face of public servants everywhere. Who is this man? He is the mayor of Jerusalem who, along with his bodyguard, wrestled a knife-wielding attacker to the ground and held him there until police arrived. http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/jerusalem-mayor-nir-barkat-wrestles-knife-attacker-ground-n310611 The 55-year-old mayor saved several people from possible injury or death from the attacker who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8309\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is what I call &#039;public service&#039;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[569,1162,2454,3574],"class_list":["post-8309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-beaumont-fire-chief","tag-cory-booker","tag-jerusalem","tag-pete-shelton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}