{"id":199346,"date":"2007-08-09T05:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/09\/hero-tells-bush-no-photo-op\/"},"modified":"2007-08-09T05:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-09T10:46:00","slug":"hero-tells-bush-no-photo-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/09\/hero-tells-bush-no-photo-op\/","title":{"rendered":"Hero Tells Bush:  No Photo Op."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Hernandez <a href=\"http:\/\/news.aol.com\/story\/_a\/bridge-hero-gets-offer-paid-tuition\/20070807101809990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001\">saved the 50 children on the school bus during the Minneapolis bridge collapse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Dunwoody College of Technology had offered him a full scholarship toward a degree in applied science.  (Sounds like an associates degree.)<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, he&#8217;s turned down a photo op with George Bush:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Hernandez was not available to comment on the offer; Ms. Schwartz said he left town for northern Minnesota late on Friday, overwhelmed by the attention and concerned that his co-workers were being overlooked. He spent the weekend fishing. When President Bush\u2019s staff contacted him to request a photo opportunity, \u201cHe was just, like, \u2018Nope,\u2019 \u201d she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Props to him if he just doesn&#8217;t want to make too much out of this, humility is far too rare these days.<\/p>\n<p>Double props if he decided that he did not want to shake hands with Bush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Hernandez saved the 50 children on the school bus during the Minneapolis bridge collapse. As a result, Dunwoody College of Technology had offered him a full scholarship toward a degree in applied science. (Sounds like an associates degree.) What&#8217;s more, he&#8217;s turned down a photo op with George Bush: Mr. Hernandez was not available &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[968,1169,1064,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-heroism","category-media","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199346"}],"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=199346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}