{"id":9399,"date":"2010-03-19T07:18:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T12:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9399"},"modified":"2010-03-19T14:32:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T19:32:54","slug":"motorcyclist-critically-injured-when-he-hits-mattress-on-i-94-startribune-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9399","title":{"rendered":"Konrad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KSTP-AM program director Steve Konrad apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/stpaul\/88501897.html?elr=KArksUUUoDEy3LGDiO7aiU\">smacked into a mattress on I94 last night<\/a> while riding his motorcycle:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The crash happened about 6 p.m. on eastbound I-94 at Western Avenue. The mattress, left or lost by another eastbound vehicle, was in the left-hand lane, State Patrol Lt. Eric Roeske said.<\/p>\n<p>A 2007 Ford Expedition was able to swerve and miss the mattress, but the 2004 Yamaha hit it and crashed, Roeske said.<\/p>\n<p>Steven J. Konrad, 46, was taken to Regions Hospital in St. Paul. He was wearing a helmet, according to the State Patrol.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So pony up your prayers, hopes, crossed fingers, karmic imprecations or whatever your worldview calls for.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/braublog\/2010\/03\/19\/16743\/kstp_hopeful_about_injured_am1500_program_director_konrad\">According to David Brauer<\/a>, Konrad is still plenty critical, with brain trauma and a bunch of broken bones\u00a0&#8211; but on the doctors&#8217; scale of 1 (&#8220;best&#8221;) to 20 (really bad) for measuring brain trauma, Steve is a &#8220;4&#8221;, and is responding to pain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KSTP-AM program director Steve Konrad apparently smacked into a mattress on I94 last night while riding his motorcycle: The crash happened about 6 p.m. on eastbound I-94 at Western Avenue. The mattress, left or lost by another eastbound vehicle, was in the left-hand lane, State Patrol Lt. Eric Roeske said. A 2007 Ford Expedition was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9399"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9416,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9399\/revisions\/9416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}