{"id":17575,"date":"2010-09-02T12:08:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T19:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=17575"},"modified":"2010-09-02T12:08:50","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T19:08:50","slug":"eight-year-old-skater-towed-into-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=17575","title":{"rendered":"Eight-year-old Skater Towed Into Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you well know we hate reading stories like this one from <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.herald-mail.com\/?cmd=displaystory&amp;story_id=252103&amp;format=html\" target=\"_blank\">The Herald-Mail<\/a><\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An 8-year-old boy was in critical condition Wednesday night at Children\u2019s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., after a skateboard accident at 440 N. Prospect St. earlier in the day, according to a Hagerstown Police Department spokesman. . . The accident occurred at about 5:45 p.m., when three juveniles were hanging onto a Jeep while riding skateboards, Sgt. Chad Woodring said late Wednesday. . . The 8-year-old boy lost his balance, and it is believed he was struck by the Jeep, Woodring said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We also flinch every time we see pros <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?s=towing+skateboard\">towing<\/a><\/strong> into stuff while skateboarding in movies like <strong>Emerica&#8217;s <\/strong><strong><em>Stay Gold<\/em><\/strong> and <strong>Nike Skateboarding&#8217;s <\/strong><strong><em>Debacle<\/em><\/strong>. Sure, skateboarding is dangerous, but still . . . <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.herald-mail.com\/?cmd=displaystory&amp;story_id=252103&amp;format=html\" target=\"_blank\">The Herald-Mail<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you well know we hate reading stories like this one from The Herald-Mail: An 8-year-old boy was in critical condition Wednesday night at Children\u2019s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., after a skateboard accident at 440 N. Prospect St. earlier in the day, according to a Hagerstown Police Department spokesman. . . The accident [&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\/17575"}],"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=17575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17576,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17575\/revisions\/17576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}