{"id":1280,"date":"2008-07-24T06:28:43","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T13:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2008-07-24T21:57:02","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T04:57:02","slug":"australian-snowboarder-dies-in-portillo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1280","title":{"rendered":"Australian Snowboarder Dies In Portillo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/j-fine-2-wideweb-470x3770.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/j-fine-2-wideweb-470x3770.jpg','popup','width=470,height=377,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/j-fine-2-wideweb-470x3770-tm.jpg\" height=\"160\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"J Fine 2 Wideweb  470X377,0\" \/><\/a><strong>Julian Fine<\/strong>, a 31-year-old snowboarder from Sydney, Australia died at Portillo, Chile on July 22, 2008 after slipping off a &#8220;poma, or t-bar&#8221; lift at the resort.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He&#8217;s gone on a lift on the way up a mountain &#8230; and he was nearly at the top and he was just unable to hold onto the lift any more and he let go of it and he was caught in a sense in one of those sections on a mountain that was very difficult to get out of,&#8221; Michael Fine [Julian&#8217;s father] said. &#8220;He couldn&#8217;t traverse to the other side, and in his attempts to get out he ended up going over a ledge.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our thoughts are with the Fine family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/world\/sydneysiders-accident-in-the-andes\/2008\/07\/24\/1216492584151.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julian Fine, a 31-year-old snowboarder from Sydney, Australia died at Portillo, Chile on July 22, 2008 after slipping off a &#8220;poma, or t-bar&#8221; lift at the resort. He&#8217;s gone on a lift on the way up a mountain &#8230; and he was nearly at the top and he was just unable to hold onto the [&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\/1280"}],"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=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}