{"id":154153,"date":"2018-09-26T10:16:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T15:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=154153"},"modified":"2018-09-27T09:34:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T14:34:35","slug":"jamestown-man-who-lost-of-hand-adjusting-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=154153","title":{"rendered":"Jamestown man who lost hand, adjusting, challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JAMESTOWN, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A North Dakota man who lost a hand while making sausage says his left arm got caught in an electric meat mixer and he was forced to cut it off above the wrist with a butcher knife.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty-nine-year-old Army veteran Myron Schlafman of Jamestown was<a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=151722\"> injured August 17 <\/a>this year when he was taking a chunk of meat out of the mixer and accidentally stepped on a pedal to activate the machine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfgo.com\/news\/articles\/2018\/sep\/25\/kfgo-exclusive-jamestown-man-who-lost-arm-in-meat-grinder-adjusting-to-challenges\/\">Schlafman told KFGO radio<\/a> the bone was severed, but he was still caught by muscle tissue, nerves and skin. He grabbed the knife and cut off the arm so he didn&#8217;t bleed to death.<\/p>\n<p>Schlafman credits two police officers with saving his life by applying a tourniquet before ambulance crews arrived. He&#8217;ll be fitted with a prosthetic in a few months.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAMESTOWN, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A North Dakota man who lost a hand while making sausage says his left arm got caught in an electric meat mixer and he was forced to cut it off above the wrist with a butcher knife. Sixty-nine-year-old Army veteran Myron Schlafman of Jamestown was injured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":154228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154153"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154161,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154153\/revisions\/154161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/154228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}