{"id":96469,"date":"2017-04-02T19:50:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T23:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=96469"},"modified":"2017-04-02T19:50:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T23:50:31","slug":"mark-mcmorris-posts-before-and-after-photo-after-life-threatening-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/02\/mark-mcmorris-posts-before-and-after-photo-after-life-threatening-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark McMorris posts before and after photo after life threatening crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_96470\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96470\" style=\"width: 812px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Capture-15.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96470\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Capture-15.png\" alt=\"\u201cApparently a lot can change in a week,\u201d said McMorris in the caption. \u201cSo so thankful to have my life! It was touch and go there for a second and I don't know how I can thank everyone enough for praying and sending healing vibes. (Photo: markmcmorris\/ instagram)\" width=\"812\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Capture-15.png 812w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Capture-15-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Capture-15-768x451.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 812px) 100vw, 812px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-96470\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cApparently a lot can change in a week,\u201d said McMorris in the caption. \u201cSo so thankful to have my life! It was touch and go there for a second and I don&#8217;t know how I can thank everyone enough for praying and sending healing vibes. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BSZQX_xDGXf\">markmcmorris\/ Instagram<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>VANCOUVER \u2013Mark McMorris gave his fans an update a week after a life-threatening crash in the backwoods of British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>McMorris posted a pair of photos to Instagram that served as a before-and-after of how he looked before the crash. One photo showed him sitting on a couch with his brother Craig, the other had him laid up in a hospital bed, covered in medical apparatus including a breathing tube.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApparently a lot can change in a week,\u201d said McMorris in the caption. \u201cSo so thankful to have my life! It was touch and go there for a second and I don&#8217;t know how I can thank everyone enough for praying and sending healing vibes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hit a tree in the whistler backcountry a week ago and to be honest I was pretty sure I was going to die.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McMorris then thanked his brother Craig and friends for \u201cstaying calm, building me a nest, and calling search and rescue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cI will never take another day on this earth for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A bronze medallist in slopestyle at the 2014 Olympics, McMorris suffered breaks to his jaw and left arm, a ruptured spleen, a stable pelvic fracture, rib fractures and a collapsed left lung.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old from Regina had to be airlifted off the mountain and underwent two separate surgeries last weekend to control bleeding and repair his jaw and arm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER \u2013Mark McMorris gave his fans an update a week after a life-threatening crash in the backwoods of British Columbia. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":96470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[17367,17366,17368],"class_list":["post-96469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-life-threatening-crash","tag-mark-mcmorris","tag-slopestyle","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}