{"id":4844,"date":"2024-12-13T15:40:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T15:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/?p=4844"},"modified":"2024-12-13T16:02:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T16:02:44","slug":"beverly-hills-ambassador-saves-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/news\/beverly-hills-ambassador-saves-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Beverly Hills Ambassador Saves Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4845\" style=\"width: 421px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4845\" class=\" wp-image-4845\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BH-Saves-Child.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"411\" height=\"546\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher has been hailed a hero for his quick thinking and bravery.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s a parent\u2019s worst nightmare and can happen in an instant: a child darts from the safety of the sidewalk and straight into oncoming traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Beverly Hills Ambassador Christopher Johnson saw just this situation unfold before his eyes during his first week of work at Block by Block. It was his quick thinking that prevented what could have otherwise been a tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher was patrolling his assignment when he spotted the terrifying situation: a young girl started running straight into the street, with cars barreling down the road. Without thinking, Christopher jumped into the street, putting himself right in harm\u2019s way. Seeing Christopher, traffic came to a screeching halt.<\/p>\n<p>In those extra seconds when Christopher jumped into the street to stop the cars, the young girl\u2019s father had just enough time to safely retrieve the child and pull her back to the sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher has been hailed a hero for his quick thinking and bravery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough he has only been with us for two months, he has shown a remarkable willingness to go above and beyond his work assignments to represent the program and the city with the excellence it deserves. He consistently takes the necessary steps to ensure residents and visitors feel happy and safe while enjoying everything the Business Triangle has to offer,\u201d Operations Manager Jon Hunter said.<\/p>\n<p>We applaud Christopher for this outstanding act of bravery and are so grateful that he was on that sidewalk that day. We can\u2019t wait to see what his future at Block by Block holds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a parent\u2019s worst nightmare and can happen in an instant: a child darts from the safety of the sidewalk and straight into oncoming traffic. Beverly Hills Ambassador Christopher Johnson saw just this situation unfold before his eyes during his first week of work at Block by Block. It was his quick thinking that prevented <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/news\/beverly-hills-ambassador-saves-child\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[94,95],"class_list":["post-4844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news","tag-beverly-hills","tag-praise"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4844"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4850,"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions\/4850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}