{"id":57050,"date":"2013-08-09T11:25:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T09:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=57050"},"modified":"2013-08-09T11:29:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T09:29:50","slug":"kid-saves-family-with-mario-kart-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/57050-kid-saves-family-with-mario-kart-skills","title":{"rendered":"Kid saves family with Mario Kart skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While some will say video games never teach you anything, a kid&#8217;s experience with Mario Kart is reported to have saved his life, as well as the lives of his brother and grandmother.<\/p>\n<p>10-year old Gryffin Sanders managed to take control of his grandmother\u2019s car when she passed out while driving on the highway.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin leaned over and directed the car away from oncoming traffic and into a ditch on the side of the road in order to stop to car, which was said to be going close to 100 km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders was awarded with two state medals for his bravery.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uvyUUDp4zNY\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a title=\"9news\" href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com\" target=\"_blank\">9news<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/57040-don-bradman-cricket-14-announced.html\">Don Bradman Cricket 14 announced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/videos\/57032-assassins-creed-4-shark-hunting-gameplay.html\">Assassin\u2019s Creed 4: shark-hunting gameplay<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/57029-saints-row-4-dev-didnt-appreciate-thqs-porn-star-focus.html\">Saints Row 4 dev \u201cdidn\u2019t appreciate\u201d THQ\u2019s porn star focus<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/57012-john-carmack-excited-for-next-gen-gaming.html\">John Carmack excited for next-gen gaming<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10-year old uses Mario Kart skills to take control of runaway car<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":57051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10942,21,6921,73],"class_list":["post-57050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-gryffin-sanders","tag-headline","tag-mario-kart","tag-nintendo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57050","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57065,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57050\/revisions\/57065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}