{"id":1977,"date":"2007-01-08T09:58:55","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T17:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/01\/definitely_definitely_--_jolly_good_fellow_and_all_that.html"},"modified":"2007-01-08T09:58:55","modified_gmt":"2007-01-08T17:58:55","slug":"definitely_defi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/definitely_defi.html","title":{"rendered":"Definitely, Definitely — Jolly Good Fellow And All That"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wesley Autrey, the man who proved once and for all just how chicken you actually are<\/a>, was feted by the Mayor on Friday and celebrated on television<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Subway superman Wesley Autrey collected a medal from Mayor Bloomberg yesterday as the courageous construction worker rode an express train from hometown hero to national icon.<\/p>\n

At City Hall, the Harlem man was awarded the Bronze Medal, the city’s top honor for civic achievement, for diving onto the subway tracks to save a stranger.<\/p>\n

Past medal recipients have included Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali and Willie Mays.<\/p>\n

Autrey, 50, “is a great man — a man who makes us all proud to be New Yorkers,” the mayor said.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

Elliot “Lee” Sander, the new executive director of the MTA, gave him a year’s worth of unlimited MetroCards, lauding his “death-defying act of bravery.”<\/p>\n

And a Disney representative gave him and his family an all-expenses-paid trip to Disney World.<\/p>\n

It was another whirlwind day for the newly minted celeb, who appeared on CBS’s “Early Show,” David Letterman’s “Late Show,” and accepted a $10,000 check from Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

“I’m going to enjoy my little 15 minutes of fame,” he remarked after the “Late Show” taping.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wesley Autrey, the man who proved once and for all just how chicken you actually are, was feted by the Mayor on Friday and celebrated on television: Subway superman Wesley Autrey collected a medal from Mayor Bloomberg yesterday as the courageous construction worker rode an express train from hometown hero to national icon. At City […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-huzzah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}