{"id":80887,"date":"2013-06-25T19:31:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T02:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=80887"},"modified":"2013-06-25T19:31:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T02:31:26","slug":"lucky-to-be-alive-skateboarder-urges-others-to-wear-a-helmet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=80887","title":{"rendered":"Lucky to be alive, skateboarder urges others to wear a helmet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A 17-year-old skateboarder from Iowa who nearly killed himself in a tragic accident has two messages to pass along to the skateboarding community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">First, Brandon Witt wants to let skateboarders know about the dangers of skitching, the practice of hitching a ride by holding on to a moving vehicle while skateboarding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Second, he offers a strong word of warning: wear a helmet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Witt suffered a\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/action-sports\/skate\/post\/lucky-to-be-alive-skateboarder-urges-others-to-wear-a-helmet\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 17-year-old skateboarder from Iowa who nearly killed himself in a tragic accident has two messages to pass along to the skateboarding community. First, Brandon Witt wants to let skateboarders know about the dangers of skitching, the practice of hitching a ride by holding on to a moving vehicle while skateboarding. Second, he offers a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-skateboard-mountain-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80888,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80887\/revisions\/80888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}