{"id":61676,"date":"2025-09-23T13:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=61676"},"modified":"2025-09-23T13:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:39:08","slug":"heroes-have-names-his-is-wesley-autrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=61676","title":{"rendered":"Heroes Have Names. His Is  Wesley Autrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-61677\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Wesley_Autrey.jpg\" alt=\"Wesley Autrey\" width=\"720\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Wesley_Autrey.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Wesley_Autrey-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In 2007, chaos struck when a young man suffered a seizure and fell onto the subway tracks. As the train approached, the crowd froze\u2014everyone but Wesley Autrey.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">With his two daughters watching, this construction worker made a split-second decision: he leapt onto the tracks, pushed the man into a shallow trough, and shielded him with his own body. Seconds later, the train roared overhead, so close that grease brushed Autrey\u2019s cap.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">When silence fell, his voice rose: \u201cWe\u2019re okay down here. But I\u2019ve got two daughters up there. Let them know their father\u2019s alright.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He didn\u2019t seek glory. He just saw someone in danger and acted. That day, an ordinary man became the \u201cSubway Hero\u201d\u2014a living reminder that true courage is often found in the split second between fear and humanity.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007, chaos struck when a young man suffered a seizure and fell onto the subway tracks. As the train approached, the crowd froze\u2014everyone but Wesley Autrey. With his two daughters watching, this construction worker made a split-second decision: he leapt onto the tracks, pushed the man into a shallow trough, and shielded him with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=61676\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heroes Have Names. His Is  Wesley Autrey&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61678,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61676\/revisions\/61678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}