{"id":228598,"date":"2022-10-17T00:18:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T00:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=228598"},"modified":"2022-10-17T00:40:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T00:40:20","slug":"you-won-t-believe-what-this-tourist-did-to-retrieve-her-iphone-from-a-times-square-grate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/you-won-t-believe-what-this-tourist-did-to-retrieve-her-iphone-from-a-times-square-grate","title":{"rendered":"You won&#8217;t believe what this tourist did to retrieve her iPhone from a Times Square grate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Filipina tourist got her iPhone back days after it fell through a metal grate in Times Square &#8212; following plenty of tears, travel rearrangements and finally, help from the MTA. Aleth Hicks, 34, lost her phone Friday night when she and a group of friends tried to balance it on a metal railing with its PopSocket before it fell over and through the metal grating. While it was well out of reach, she could still see it and wanted it back &#8211; badly. &#8220;At first, it hasn&#8217;t sunk into me [that] it&#8217;s gonna be that hard to get the phone out,&#8221; she told The Post on Sunday. She went to cops, firefighters and Times Square security, to no avail, before someone suggested going to the nearby MTA booth Saturday. The booth attendant told her workers were coming but that it might take some time before staff arrives on a busy Saturday. No one came, even as she and friends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Filipina tourist got her iPhone back days after it fell through a metal grate in Times Square &#8212; following plenty of tears, travel rearrangements and finally, help from the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[239,8],"class_list":["post-228598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-safety","tag-iphone","tag-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}