{"id":3733,"date":"2009-03-31T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T09:35:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"young-man-dies-playing-wii-fit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/3733-young-man-dies-playing-wii-fit","title":{"rendered":"Young man dies playing Wii Fit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 25 year old British man has reportedly died moments after playing Nintendo&rsquo;s Wii fit.<\/p>\n<p>Just moments after playing the jogging level of the popular fitness orientated game, Tim Eves reportedly collapsed and died in front of his girlfriend Emma Tuck and friend Lewis Hickin.<\/p>\n<p>The two desperately tried to revive Eves, but the man was reported dead on arrival at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that Eves was a victim of Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndrome, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sads.org.\/\" target=\"_self\">SADS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Eves was a fit and healthy young man who enjoyed cycling, fishing and drumming in a rock band and was also a scout leader. SADS is known to strike in fit, young and apparently healthy individuals, and is made up of a series of genetic heart conditions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?p=27860#post27860\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Wii Fit<\/a> on the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wii Fit: Harmless pro-fitness video game or Silent Killer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}