{"id":146994663,"date":"2009-08-29T07:51:03","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T07:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=146994663"},"modified":"2009-08-29T07:51:03","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T07:51:03","slug":"cyclist-16-brain-dead-after-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=146994663","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist, 16, Brain Dead After Car Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOWARD COUNTY, Md. &#8212; The family of a Howard County teen who was hit by a suspected drunken driver while riding his bike early Friday morning told 11 News the boy is brain dead.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Wortman, 16, of Elkridge, was hit by a car while he was riding his bike on Route 108 near Lark Brown Road at about 12:30 a.m., police said.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbaltv.com\/news\/20602539\/detail.html\">https:\/\/www.wbaltv.com\/news\/20602539\/detail.html<\/a>oldId.20090829075103132<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOWARD COUNTY, Md. &#8212; The family of a Howard County teen who was hit by a suspected drunken driver while riding his bike early Friday morning told 11 News the boy is brain dead. Benjamin Wortman, 16, of Elkridge, was hit by a car while he was riding his bike on Route 108 near Lark &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=146994663\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cyclist, 16, Brain Dead After Car Crash&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146994663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-the-metro-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146994663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146994663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146994663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146994663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146994663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146994663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}