{"id":183272,"date":"2015-01-10T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/10\/thank-you-lassana-bathily\/"},"modified":"2015-01-10T19:21:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T00:21:00","slug":"thank-you-lassana-bathily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/10\/thank-you-lassana-bathily\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You Lassana Bathily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He was an employee at the Hyper Cacher supermarket who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/11\/world\/europe\/charlie-hebdo-kosher-supermarket-hostage-crisis.html\">managed to get about 15 people into hiding during the hostage taking and subsequent siege<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the authorities in France worked on Saturday to piece together the sequence of events at a kosher supermarket in Paris where a gunman and four hostages were killed on Friday, there was an outpouring of praise online for a young employee credited with saving the lives of some customers by hiding them in a cold-storage room.<\/p>\n<p>The employee, Lassana Bathily, 24, was identified in the French news as a Muslim from Mali who worked at the supermarket, Hyper Cacher, near the Porte de Vincennes in eastern Paris.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When the people he had hidden came out at the end of the siege, Mr. Bathily said, \u201cthey congratulated me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey said, \u2018Really, thanks for thinking of all these ideas.\u2019 I said, \u2018It\u2019s nothing, it\u2019s life.&#8217;\u200a\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It ain&#8217;t nothing.<\/p>\n<p>You kept your head, and helped a lot of people.<\/p>\n<p>It <b><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;font-size: 100%;\">is<\/span><\/b> a big deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was an employee at the Hyper Cacher supermarket who managed to get about 15 people into hiding during the hostage taking and subsequent siege: As the authorities in France worked on Saturday to piece together the sequence of events at a kosher supermarket in Paris where a gunman and four hostages were killed on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[984,1169,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-heroism","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}