{"id":43227,"date":"2013-09-04T14:28:52","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T21:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=43227"},"modified":"2013-09-04T14:29:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T21:29:04","slug":"snowboarder-dies-trying-to-retrieve-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=43227","title":{"rendered":"Snowboarder Dies Trying To Retrieve Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Caroline Johnston<\/strong>, 44, fell to her death at New Zealand&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtruapehu.com\/winter\/whakapapa-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">Whakapapa Resort  <\/a><\/strong>on Saturday, August 31, 2013 after ducking past warning signs in pursuit of her lost snowboard, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/news\/national\/271497\/snowboarder-ignored-danger-signs-fatal-fall\" target=\"_blank\">Otago Daily Online News<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Constable <strong>Conrad Smith<\/strong> of National Park police said the woman was walking back from the West Ridge chairlift towards the Waterfall T-bar in an area known as the Amphitheatre on Saturday when she lost grip of her board. . . It slipped down hill and she went after it. . . &#8220;She&#8217;s gone past warning signs and dangers signs to look for her board and she&#8217;s fallen off a cliff,&#8221; Mr Smith said. . . The woman, who had left her friends who she&#8217;d been skiing with earlier, fell 15m vertically before tumbling a further 100m-150m.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Johnston was a British-born TV director who had moved to New Zealand in 1999. Our thoughts are with Johnston&#8217;s family and friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/news\/national\/271524\/snowboarder-death-she-lived-life-fullest\" target=\"_blank\">Otago Daily Online News<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caroline Johnston, 44, fell to her death at New Zealand&#8217;s Whakapapa Resort on Saturday, August 31, 2013 after ducking past warning signs in pursuit of her lost snowboard, according to a story in the Otago Daily Online News. Constable Conrad Smith of National Park police said the woman was walking back from the West Ridge [&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\/43227"}],"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=43227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43228,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43227\/revisions\/43228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}