{"id":72003,"date":"2025-05-27T14:52:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T05:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/27\/new-zealand-teenager-death-tackle-game-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2025-05-27T14:52:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T05:52:16","slug":"new-zealand-teenager-dies-after-tackle-game-linked-to-viral-run-it-straight-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72003","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand teenager dies after tackle game linked to viral Run It Straight challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police confirmed the 19-year-old died in hospital on Monday night after he suffered a critical head injury<\/p>\n<p>A New Zealand teenager has died after playing a tackling game, believed to have been inspired by a controversial new high impact collision sport trending on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Police confirmed the 19-year-old died in hospital on Monday night after he suffered a critical head injury while playing a tackle game with friends in the North Island city Palmerston North on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/27\/new-zealand-teenager-death-tackle-game-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police confirmed the 19-year-old died in hospital on Monday night after he suffered a critical head injuryA New Zealand teenager has died after playing a tackling game, believed to have been inspired by a controversial new high impact collision sport t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72004,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72003\/revisions\/72004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}