{"id":30467,"date":"2025-01-14T12:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T12:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/im-alive-man-who-uses-wheelchair-tells-of-new-orleans-attack-ordeal\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T12:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T12:52:10","slug":"im-alive-man-who-uses-wheelchair-tells-of-new-orleans-attack-ordeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/im-alive-man-who-uses-wheelchair-tells-of-new-orleans-attack-ordeal\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m alive\u2019: man who uses wheelchair tells of New Orleans attack ordeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Family of Jeremi Sensky, from Pittsburgh, suggests wheelchair may have acted as \u2018boulder\u2019 to help stop attack<\/p>\n<p>The family of a man who was left paralyzed from the waist down by a 1999 car accident before being hit and badly wounded in the deadly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-orleans-vehicle-attack\">New Year\u2019s Day truck attack in New Orleans<\/a> are reportedly wondering whether the 300lb wheelchair he uses may have had a role in helping halt the terror.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremi Sensky of the suburban Pittsburgh community of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, was in New Orleans to ring in 2025 with relatives at the time the attack occurred, he told KDKA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/heaven.sensky\/posts\/pfbid0WdUhSWdqYBWo1bEZxZAFstMZ63UohKpCoDZNZDWe9EocSYRYMPAfLpxi7TEY554Bl?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZWk9vvIbXMreWMslNpqebjmpdQNRMEmIu0-2PznbBozmddom4yA8pJW6-fu2j-JNPJmJJ4fVcKoa6Gz7WgSM5HOtdBMNIizDOk0dhgbgR7Etff6G2WT25phLTbWsC8t21txFgzVNKLz0y4_Hj0FioBocN4pnSKVDf96atE0AJT-wi3avCnsYa5w7YJjAhIjEuJeMAe1sUwfhyOLlXF8daNmR7uQmT7oUqpUR6Tex8aZRA&amp;__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\">The Marty Griffin Show<\/a>. Sensky was on Bourbon Street when he was hit by a US army veteran inspired by Islamic State in an intentional ramming that killed 14 people and wounded about 30 others.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/14\/new-orleans-attack-wheelchair\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family of Jeremi Sensky, from Pittsburgh, suggests wheelchair may have acted as \u2018boulder\u2019 to help stop attack The family of a man who was left paralyzed from the waist down by a 1999 car accident before being hit and badly wounded in the deadly New Year\u2019s Day truck attack in New Orleans are reportedly wondering &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018I\u2019m alive\u2019: man who uses wheelchair tells of New Orleans attack ordeal\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/im-alive-man-who-uses-wheelchair-tells-of-new-orleans-attack-ordeal\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018I\u2019m alive\u2019: man who uses wheelchair tells of New Orleans attack ordeal\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}