{"id":31075,"date":"2012-06-19T08:37:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T15:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=31075"},"modified":"2012-06-19T08:37:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T15:37:58","slug":"north-carolina-skateboarder-dies-towing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=31075","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina Skateboarder Dies Towing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/king_jonah.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/king_jonah.jpg','popup','width=164,height=211,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:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/king_jonah-tm.jpg\" height=\"128\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"King Jonah\" \/><\/a><strong>Jonah King<\/strong>, a 16-year-old longboarder from Rowan County, North Carolina died from head injuries sustained after <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.wsoctv.com\/news\/news\/local\/police-alcohol-factor-longboard-fatal-accident\/nPYf5\/\" target=\"_blank\">WSOTV.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>King was riding his longboard, which is a bigger version of a skateboard, on Timberlane Trail in Salisbury when he fell and hit his head. . . Police said he was being pulled behind a car when he fell. Investigators said King was doing what is known as &#8220;towing&#8221; or &#8220;skidding,&#8221; which is when a skateboarder grabs the side of a vehicle and is towed up hills. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>King was not wearing a helmet and had, earlier in the evening, been caught on tape illegally buying beer at a mini market. Authorities are awaiting toxicology results. Our thoughts are with King&#8217;s family and friends. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsoctv.com\/news\/news\/local\/police-alcohol-factor-longboard-fatal-accident\/nPYf5\/\" target=\"_blank\">WSOTV<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonah King, a 16-year-old longboarder from Rowan County, North Carolina died from head injuries sustained after skateboard towing, according to a story on WSOTV.com. King was riding his longboard, which is a bigger version of a skateboard, on Timberlane Trail in Salisbury when he fell and hit his head. . . Police said he was [&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\/31075"}],"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=31075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31077,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31075\/revisions\/31077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}