{"id":14591,"date":"2010-03-07T00:13:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T08:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14591"},"modified":"2010-03-07T00:13:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T08:13:53","slug":"snowboarder-dies-at-big-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14591","title":{"rendered":"Snowboarder Dies At Big White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/bigwhite_logo.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/bigwhite_logo.jpg','popup','width=175,height=90,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\/2010\/03\/bigwhite_logo-tm.jpg\" height=\"51\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Bigwhite Logo\" \/><\/a>A Vancouver snowboarder died Saturday, March 6, 2010 after apparently hitting a tree while snowboarding at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigwhite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Big White Ski Resort<\/a><\/strong>, according to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprovince.com\/sports\/Snowboarder+dies+hill+White\/2650642\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Province<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Michael Ballingal<\/strong>, spokesman for Big White, said the young man died while snowboarding in bounds down Whitefoot Bowl run, an intermediate level hill. . . It\u2019s believed the snowboarder may have struck a tree, but Ballingal did not have further details on the circumstances that led to the death. . . \u201cIt\u2019s a tragedy. It\u2019s very, very seldom that these things happen, a sudden death like that. It\u2019s so close to home and it\u2019s the first Saturday of spring break,\u201d said Ballingal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The snowboarders name and age have not been released.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprovince.com\/sports\/Snowboarder+dies+hill+White\/2650642\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Province<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Vancouver snowboarder died Saturday, March 6, 2010 after apparently hitting a tree while snowboarding at Big White Ski Resort, according to a story in The Province. Michael Ballingal, spokesman for Big White, said the young man died while snowboarding in bounds down Whitefoot Bowl run, an intermediate level hill. . . It\u2019s believed 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\/14591"}],"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=14591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14592,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14591\/revisions\/14592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}