{"id":49,"date":"2007-08-19T16:39:08","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T00:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=49"},"modified":"2007-12-21T16:40:27","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T00:40:27","slug":"just-wear-a-helmet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Just Wear A Helmet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stage2.bndco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/skater19adwb-400.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/stage2.bndco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/skater19adwb-400.jpg','popup','width=400,height=272,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:\/\/stage2.bndco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/skater19adwb-400-tm.jpg\" height=\"136\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Skater19Adwb 400\" \/><\/a>There is nothing sadder than children dying and when two Southern California pre-teens died in one week while riding their <strong>skateboards<\/strong> it&#8217;s a stong reminder to wear protective gear:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Moreno Valley, 12-year-old Sean Mikhail died Aug. 11 when he fell off his skateboard and hit his head on the pavement. He was not wearing a helmet. . . . In Menifee, Marlena Mattfeld, 11, of Long Beach, died Monday, three days after she lost control and slid beneath a moving motor home at Hanover Lane and Holland Road, near her grandmother&#8217;s home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While helmet&#8217;s can&#8217;t save skateboarders from getting run over by motorhomes they can be helpful when rolling concrete. And, in California. . . it&#8217;s the law.<\/p>\n<p>[<strong>Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&#038;ct=us\/1-0&#038;fd=R&#038;url=http:\/\/www.pe.com\/localnews\/rivcounty\/stories\/PE_News_Local_H_skater19.3df87dc.html&#038;cid=0&#038;ei=pkbIRvWcCYPCqgPx1OWfAQ\">Press-Enterprise <\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing sadder than children dying and when two Southern California pre-teens died in one week while riding their skateboards it&#8217;s a stong reminder to wear protective gear: In Moreno Valley, 12-year-old Sean Mikhail died Aug. 11 when he fell off his skateboard and hit his head on the pavement. He was not wearing [&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\/49"}],"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=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}