{"id":3927935,"date":"2026-09-12T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/it-was-surreal-leo-was-2-days-into-nypd-training-when-9-11-attacks-threw-him-into-action\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T08:00:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T13:00:55","slug":"it-was-surreal-leo-was-2-days-into-nypd-training-when-9-11-attacks-threw-him-into-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/it-was-surreal-leo-was-2-days-into-nypd-training-when-9-11-attacks-threw-him-into-action\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It was surreal&#8217;: LEO was 2 days into NYPD training when 9\/11 attacks threw him into action"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Tom DaCosta was an NYPD recruit working a night shift at the academy; then, two days later, he was patrolling Grand Central Terminal, watching for signs of terrorism<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.police1.com\/11-sep-01\/it-was-surreal-leo-was-2-days-into-nypd-training-when-9-11-attacks-threw-him-into-action\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom DaCosta was an NYPD recruit working a night shift at the academy; then, two days later, he was patrolling Grand Central Terminal, watching for signs of terrorism <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-police-lives-matter","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}