{"id":45642,"date":"2014-03-17T10:06:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T18:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=45642"},"modified":"2014-03-17T10:06:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T18:06:54","slug":"snowboarder-dies-after-hitting-tree-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=45642","title":{"rendered":"Snowboarder Dies After Hitting Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Austin P. White<\/strong>, a 22 year-old snowboarder died Sunday, March 16, 2014 after hitting a tree at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whiteface.com\" target=\"_blank\">Whiteface Mountain<\/a><\/strong> in Lake Placid, New York, according to a story in the <strong><em>Press Republican<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>White. . . was boarding with his sister and some friends on the Excelsior trail, State Police Troop B Public Information Officer Trooper Jennifer Fleishman said on Monday morning. . . He passed them, she said, then they came upon him moments later, just after he&#8217;d skidded off the trail and struck the tree a short distance into the woods, near the junction with Lower Northway trail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2014\/03\/suny_brockport_student_dies_in_snowboarding_accident_at_whiteface.html\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a><\/strong>, White was a student at State University of New York College at Brockport where he was a senior studying excise science. He was scheduled to graduate in May. White reportedly suffered a &#8220;severe head injury,&#8221; and was not wearing a helmet.  Our thoughts are with White&#8217;s family and friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressrepublican.com\/breaking2\/x1387869188\/Snowboarder-dies-at-Whiteface\" target=\"_blank\">Press Republican<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2014\/03\/suny_brockport_student_dies_in_snowboarding_accident_at_whiteface.html\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin P. White, a 22 year-old snowboarder died Sunday, March 16, 2014 after hitting a tree at the Whiteface Mountain in Lake Placid, New York, according to a story in the Press Republican. White. . . was boarding with his sister and some friends on the Excelsior trail, State Police Troop B Public Information Officer [&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\/45642"}],"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=45642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45643,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45642\/revisions\/45643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}