{"id":15303,"date":"2016-07-17T08:02:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T15:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/wasilla-man-dies-in-rafting-accident-on-montana-creek\/"},"modified":"2016-07-17T08:02:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T15:02:34","slug":"wasilla-man-dies-in-rafting-accident-on-montana-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/wasilla-man-dies-in-rafting-accident-on-montana-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasilla man dies in rafting accident on Montana Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALKEETNA \u2014 Alaska State Troopers say a 44-year-old Wasilla man died in an apparent rafting accident in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.<\/p>\n<p>The body of Lawrence Christopherson was found Thursday afternoon in Montana Creek.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers recovered the body after responding at about 1:45 p.m. to a report of a raft overturned in the popular fishing creek.<\/p>\n<p>The raft had become hung up on a log jam.<\/p>\n<p>The state medical examiner will conduct an autopsy.<\/p>\n<p>Christopherson\u2019s next of kin was notified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TALKEETNA \u2014 Alaska State Troopers say a 44-year-old Wasilla man died in an apparent rafting accident in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. The body of Lawrence Christopherson was found Thursday afternoon in Montana Creek. Troopers recovered the body after responding at about 1:45 p.m. to a report of a raft overturned in the popular fishing creek. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15303"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}