{"id":12732,"date":"2009-12-28T08:32:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T16:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12732"},"modified":"2009-12-28T08:32:04","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T16:32:04","slug":"snowboarder-dies-at-killington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12732","title":{"rendered":"Snowboarder Dies At Killington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 20-year-old Connecticut man found unconscious in the middle of a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.killington.com\/winter\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Killington Resort<\/a><\/strong> run on Thursday, December 24, 2009, died, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesargus.com\/article\/RH\/20091228\/NEWS01\/912280345\/0\/SPORTS\" target=\"_blank\">Times Argus<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to an e-mail sent Sunday from <strong>Tom Horrocks<\/strong>, the resort&#8217;s communications manager, the man &#8220;died following a snowboard accident.&#8221; . . . &#8220;Killington Ski Patrol responded to reports of an unconscious person on Cascade Trail at approximately 12 p.m., brought him down the mountain, then transferred the man to Regional Ambulance Service,&#8221; according to the e-mail, with information Horrocks said he received from the resort&#8217;s risk manager.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All that the resort would say was that  &#8220;the man did not fall from a chair and he was wearing a helmet.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesargus.com\/article\/RH\/20091228\/NEWS01\/912280345\/0\/SPORTS\" target=\"_blank\">Times Argus<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 20-year-old Connecticut man found unconscious in the middle of a Killington Resort run on Thursday, December 24, 2009, died, according to a story in the Times Argus. According to an e-mail sent Sunday from Tom Horrocks, the resort&#8217;s communications manager, the man &#8220;died following a snowboard accident.&#8221; . . . &#8220;Killington Ski Patrol responded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12732"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12733,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12732\/revisions\/12733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}