{"id":1133,"date":"2009-10-14T02:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/10\/14\/another-north-country-child-dies-motor-sporting\/"},"modified":"2009-10-14T02:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T06:20:00","slug":"another-north-country-child-dies-motor-sporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/10\/14\/another-north-country-child-dies-motor-sporting\/","title":{"rendered":"Another North Country child dies motor sporting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know a lot of you think I&#8217;m a broken record on the subject of kids and motor sport safety. <\/p>\n<p>But I want to keep throwing out there the fact that these hobbies are very high risk.  At the very least, parents should go in eyes wide open.<\/p>\n<p>The latest tragedy involves 15-year-old Kyle Cootware of North Lawrence, who died last Sunday while competing in a motorcycle race in Moira in Franklin County.<\/p>\n<p>State police say Kyle lost control of the motorcycle while going over a jump. <\/p>\n<p>The child was airlifted to Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, where he died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s heartbreaking and you have to grieve for the boy&#8217;s family.  It&#8217;s also a time for every family that takes up these sports to have a good, frank dinner table conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Is this hobby worth the risk?  Are we taking every possible precaution?  Are there safer, healthier sports that our family, our children, could take up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know a lot of you think I&#8217;m a broken record on the subject of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}