{"id":51167,"date":"2017-03-27T09:18:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T16:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=51167"},"modified":"2017-03-28T09:25:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T16:25:46","slug":"mark-mcmorris-threes-into-the-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=51167","title":{"rendered":"Mark McMorris Threes Into The Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-51168\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/canada-olympics-mcmorris-bronze-200x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/canada-olympics-mcmorris-bronze-200x150.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/canada-olympics-mcmorris-bronze-450x338.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/canada-olympics-mcmorris-bronze.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Mark McMorris<\/strong> was sent another setback while filming with his brother Craig in the Whistler backcountry on Saturday, March 25, 2017, according to a story on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/olympic-snowboarder-mark-mcmorris-injured-near-whistler-1.4041772\"><strong>CBC<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Craig McMorris&nbsp;said the group was jumping off a feature in the backcountry&nbsp;onto a landing area at a high rate of speed and from considerable height.&nbsp;&#8220;There was fog kind of&nbsp;coming in and out, and Mark, unfortunately, drifted&nbsp;a little bit too far left&nbsp;&#8230; and ended up in a clump of trees,&#8221; he said.&nbsp;&#8220;It&#8217;s a freak accident, you know,&nbsp;99.9 per cent of the time he would have landed in the snow and rode away. This time, for whatever reason, just a couple of feet to the left and ends up in pretty much the worst-case scenario.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>McMorris, who was doing a 360 off the jump, suffered a&nbsp;fractured jaw and left arm, ruptured spleen, a &nbsp;fractured pelvis, broken ribs&nbsp;and a collapsed left lung. He reportedly went through two different surgeries and is thankfully doing well. Our thoughts are with him for a speedy recovery.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/olympic-snowboarder-mark-mcmorris-injured-near-whistler-1.4041772\">CBC<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark McMorris was sent another setback while filming with his brother Craig in the Whistler backcountry on Saturday, March 25, 2017, according to a story on the CBC. Craig McMorris&nbsp;said the group was jumping off a feature in the backcountry&nbsp;onto a landing area at a high rate of speed and from considerable height.&nbsp;&#8220;There was fog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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\/51167"}],"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=51167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51169,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51167\/revisions\/51169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}