{"id":336959,"date":"2026-09-03T11:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336959\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T11:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:06:09","slug":"man-struck-by-lightning-on-staten-island-walks-away-with-minor-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336959\/","title":{"rendered":"Man struck by lightning on Staten Island walks away with minor injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dek\">Senior national correspondent Kevin Corke reports on a Staten Island man who survived a close-range lightning strike while walking to a dentist appointment. The GOP staffer went on to purchase a lottery ticket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dek long-dek\">A Staten Island man miraculously walks away after a close-range lightning strike captured on a home security camera. Senior national correspondent Kevin Corke reports on the GOP congressional staffer, who suffered minor injuries while walking to a dentist appointment in New York. The survivor later purchased a lottery ticket after visiting a church to offer thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senior national correspondent Kevin Corke reports on a Staten Island man who survived a close-range lightning strike while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[79731,3870,9,24,79730,63,134,136,135,1115],"class_list":["post-336959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-breaking-news-videos","tag-fox-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news-videos","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}