{"id":3556,"date":"2011-06-25T12:08:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T16:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=3556"},"modified":"2011-06-25T12:08:28","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T16:08:28","slug":"wife-prays-for-an-angel-football-player-lifts-car-off-trapped-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/06\/wife-prays-for-an-angel-football-player-lifts-car-off-trapped-husband","title":{"rendered":"Wife prays for an angel, football player lifts car off trapped husband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGod, bring an angel to my side,\u201d prayed the desperate, screaming wife as she struggled to lift a car off of her husband\u2019s chest. \u201cHelp me!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the parking lot of the Bull\u2019s Den Cafe near the University of South Florida, tow truck driver Pedro Arzola, 34, was pinned under the right front tire of a 1990 Cadillac Seville owned by Chris Merrick, a cook at the restaurant. 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