{"id":1137,"date":"2013-07-19T11:02:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T15:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2013-07-19T11:02:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T15:02:02","slug":"indiana-boy-dies-after-being-hit-in-head-with-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2013\/07\/19\/indiana-boy-dies-after-being-hit-in-head-with-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana boy dies after being hit in head with baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1138\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1138\" style=\"width: 534px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1138\" alt=\"Photo via Indianapolis Star\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/07\/dylan.jpg\" width=\"534\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/07\/dylan.jpg 534w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/07\/dylan-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo via Indianapolis Star<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dylan Williams, 8, from Union City, Indiana was hit in the head by a baseball Tuesday\u00a0during an all-star game practice. He was taken to Winchester Hospital and later transferred to Riley Children&#8217;s Hospital, where he died Wednesday after his family opted to have him taken off life support.<\/p>\n<p>The Marion County Coroner&#8217;s Office says Dylan Williams died of blunt force trauma on the right side of the boys head and neck.<\/p>\n<p>Erik Williams, Dylan&#8217;s father and one of the team&#8217;s coaches said Dylan was playing first base when a teammate threw a ball. At first he said he didn&#8217;t think the injury was serious.<\/p>\n<p>Williams told WISH-TV he shouted at Dylan to get up and that he should&#8217;ve been paying attention. He then went to pick up his son and found him limp.<\/p>\n<p>Williams said that doctors described Dylan&#8217;s death as a one in 10 million chance.<\/p>\n<p>A charitable foundation is being set up in his name through a local bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dylan Williams, 8, from Union City, Indiana was hit in the head by a baseball Tuesday\u00a0during an all-star game practice. He was taken to Winchester Hospital and later transferred to Riley Children&#8217;s Hospital, where he died Wednesday after his family opted to have him taken off life support. The Marion County Coroner&#8217;s Office says Dylan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[17],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}