{"id":16125,"date":"2010-06-03T08:03:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T15:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=16125"},"modified":"2010-06-03T08:05:25","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T15:05:25","slug":"truck-tows-skateboarder-into-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=16125","title":{"rendered":"Truck Tows Skateboarder Into Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 8-year-old Kansas boy is in critical condition after towing on his skateboard behind a truck his brother was driving, according to a story <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kctv5.com\/news\/23778525\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">KCTC5.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Witnesses said the 8-year-old was riding alongside the passenger side of the truck, when he lost control and fell. After falling, the truck struck the boy. . . &#8220;I saw him holding onto the truck and let go, grab, and then grab back on,&#8221; witness Worthen said. &#8220;The truck continued going and slammed on its braked and backed up. I saw the older brother grab (him) and run him down the hill.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seems like a certain skateboard industry organization might be able to get the word out that towing is a really, really bad idea. If you don&#8217;t believe it, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?s=skateboard+towing\" target=\"_blank\">click here for more towing stories<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kctv5.com\/news\/23778525\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">KCTC5.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 8-year-old Kansas boy is in critical condition after towing on his skateboard behind a truck his brother was driving, according to a story KCTC5.com. Witnesses said the 8-year-old was riding alongside the passenger side of the truck, when he lost control and fell. After falling, the truck struck the boy. . . &#8220;I saw [&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":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16125"}],"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=16125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16127,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16125\/revisions\/16127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}