{"id":12740,"date":"2009-12-29T10:18:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T18:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12740"},"modified":"2009-12-29T15:01:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T23:01:51","slug":"snowboarder-dies-after-riding-onto-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12740","title":{"rendered":"Snowboarder Dies After Riding Onto Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 9-year-old boy who was snowboarding at his grandparents house near Black River Falls, Wisconsin died after riding into the path of an oncoming car.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jackson County sheriff&#8217;s officials say the boy was snowboarding Saturday afternoon on the property of his grandparents, who he was visiting for the holidays. According to preliminary reports, the boy slid onto a highway and was struck by a passing van.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our thoughts are with the boys family.<\/p>\n<p>[<strong>Update from <\/strong><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacrossetribune.com\/news\/local\/article_aba7ff3a-f4bb-11de-8952-001cc4c002e0.html\" target=\"_blank\">The LaCrosse Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>: The man driving the van, <strong>Jarred Mortenson<\/strong>, 19, of Tayor, Wisconsin, has been arrested &#8220;for driving a motor vehicle with a detectable amount of a controlled substance,&#8221; the Jackson County Sheriff&#8217;s Department said.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/chi-ap-wi-snowboardingfatal,0,3571429.story\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 9-year-old boy who was snowboarding at his grandparents house near Black River Falls, Wisconsin died after riding into the path of an oncoming car. Jackson County sheriff&#8217;s officials say the boy was snowboarding Saturday afternoon on the property of his grandparents, who he was visiting for the holidays. According to preliminary reports, the boy [&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\/12740"}],"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=12740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12753,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12740\/revisions\/12753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}