{"id":603,"date":"2017-05-27T08:55:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T12:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecolumbiaobserver.com\/?p=603"},"modified":"2017-05-27T08:55:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T12:55:43","slug":"south-carolina-teen-dies-accidentally-shoots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecolumbiaobserver.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/27\/south-carolina-teen-dies-accidentally-shoots\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina Teen Dies After He Accidentally Shoots Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: .25in; line-height: 18.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #222222;\">(Sumter, SC) 17 year old<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Ortagease Easterling was found outside of his home on Miller Road and taken to Columbia Hospital where he died Friday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: .25in; line-height: 18.0pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #222222;\">Investigators are not sure how he got the gun, but is ruled a suicide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: .25in; line-height: 18.0pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #222222;\">Sumter police are issuing a series of gun safety tips.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Sumter, SC) 17 year old\u00a0Ortagease Easterling was found outside of his home on Miller Road and taken to Columbia Hospital where he died Friday morning. Investigators are not sure how he got the gun, but is ruled a suicide. Sumter police are issuing a series of gun safety tips. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119],"tags":[247,248,105,103,236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecolumbiaobserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecolumbiaobserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecolumbiaobserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecolumbiaobserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecolumbiaobserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecolumbiaobserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/thecolumbiaobserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecolumbiaobserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecolumbiaobserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecolumbiaobserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecolumbiaobserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}