{"id":881244,"date":"2026-09-05T19:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/881244\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T19:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:10:18","slug":"melbourne-pharmacist-punched-in-the-face-by-aggressive-customer-in-unprovoked-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/881244\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne pharmacist punched in the face by aggressive customer in unprovoked attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pharmacists are the quiet heroes on the frontline.<\/p>\n<p>Russell has been helping his community for three decades until he was punched in the face by an aggressive customer in an unprovoked attack inside his Melbourne store.<\/p>\n<p>Work has not been the same for the 65-year-old since, and his wife Charlotte says enough is enough.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full story in the video player above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pharmacists are the quiet heroes on the frontline. Russell has been helping his community for three decades until&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-881244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}