{"id":2420,"date":"2010-12-07T10:07:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T18:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2010-12-07T10:07:28","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T18:07:28","slug":"the-carnage-has-started-on-skating-with-the-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/the-carnage-has-started-on-skating-with-the-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"The carnage has started on Skating with the Stars&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just thank goodness it was no worse. We have one unspecified illness&#8212;which could be concussion: you can start throwing up after a hit on the head a day ago, and that can be a lasting problem. They&#8217;re not saying. We had someone&#8212;a professional&#8212; nearly have a finger severed by her student. Whether that cut missed the tendon they&#8217;re not saying. She&#8217;s calling it minor. When 200 pounds pressing down on a blade that can cut a slash in jeans just by setting your skates on your lap hits a bare hand lying on the ice, it&#8217;s not minor. I hope they&#8217;re paying these pros plenty, because they&#8217;re taking their lives and health in their hands. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m all for adults learning to skate. There are ways to do it safely, and that includes not trying to do a flip jump or toe loop after one week of instruction, not going out bare-handed for a good impression on the cameras, and not trying complex pairs maneuvers that send you down in a tangle in which the pro&#8217;s first thought is protecting the student&#8217;s head from impact (Hel-mets! Please!) or in a situation where the pro goes down because of the student and the student has no clue that he&#8217;s too close to his partner with the blades.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just thank goodness it was no worse. We have one unspecified illness&#8212;which could be concussion: you can start throwing up after a hit on the head a day ago, and that can be a lasting problem. They&#8217;re not saying. We had someone&#8212;a professional&#8212; nearly have a finger severed by her student. Whether that cut missed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}