{"id":2002,"date":"2007-01-11T10:32:41","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T18:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/01\/media_and_advocacy_groups_agreed_that_he_was_dead.html"},"modified":"2007-01-11T10:32:41","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T18:32:41","slug":"media_and_advoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/media_and_advoc.html","title":{"rendered":"Media And Advocacy Groups Agreed That He Was Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/ny.metro.us\/metro\/local\/article\/The_Lazarus_of_the_Bronx\/6490.html\">somewhere a lowly factchecker pleads for his job<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>There&#8217;s a plaque on Shore Road where bicyclist Ivan Morales was struck by an SUV nearly a year ago. After being hurled more than 30 feet in the air, his helmet split in half. So did his skull. The NYPD and news reports said he was dead.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, Time&#8217;s Up!, a bike advocacy group, organized a tour of sites throughout the city where cyclists were killed by motor vehicles. When News 12 broadcast a segment from the spot where Morales was killed, his fellow churchgoers were shocked.<\/p>\n<p>Ivan Morales is alive and well and living in the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was actually dead at one point,&#8221; the 62-year-old retired Metro-North computer analyst said yesterday. &#8220;In the ambulance, they said, there&#8217;s nothing we can do for this guy. What happened, by the grace of God, I came back.&#8221; He was in a coma for four days and didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember anything about the Jan. 9, 2006, incident after waking.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No word on whether the plaque was returned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, somewhere a lowly factchecker pleads for his job: There&#8217;s a plaque on Shore Road where bicyclist Ivan Morales was struck by an SUV nearly a year ago. After being hurled more than 30 feet in the air, his helmet split in half. So did his skull. The NYPD and news reports said he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dude_thats_so_weird","category-the_bronx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","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=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}