{"id":21908,"date":"2011-03-07T10:48:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T18:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=21908"},"modified":"2011-03-07T10:48:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T18:48:16","slug":"austin-skateboarder-dies-while-towing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=21908","title":{"rendered":"Austin Skateboarder Dies While Towing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 18-year-old skateboarder from West Travis County, Texas died Saturday afternoon (March 5, 2011) after he fell while <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?s=skateboard+towing\" target=\"_blank\">skateboard towing<\/a><\/strong>, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kxan.com\/dpp\/news\/local\/kxan-austin-teen-dies-in-skateboarding-accident\" target=\"_blank\">KXAN.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A spokesman with the sheriff&#8217;s office says the incident happened shortly after 1:30 p.m. in the 4900 block of Cypress Ranch Boulevard. Investigators say the teen was holding onto the back of a truck while riding his skateboard uphill when he somehow lost control and fell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The skateboarder was flown to University Medical Center Brackenridge where he was pronounced dead. Our thoughts are with the man&#8217;s family and friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kxan.com\/dpp\/news\/local\/kxan-austin-teen-dies-in-skateboarding-accident\" target=\"_blank\">KXAN.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 18-year-old skateboarder from West Travis County, Texas died Saturday afternoon (March 5, 2011) after he fell while skateboard towing, according to a story on KXAN.com. A spokesman with the sheriff&#8217;s office says the incident happened shortly after 1:30 p.m. in the 4900 block of Cypress Ranch Boulevard. Investigators say the teen was holding onto [&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":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21909,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21908\/revisions\/21909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}