{"id":1447,"date":"2009-03-21T17:45:56","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T00:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/03\/cigarettes-kill\/"},"modified":"2009-03-21T17:45:56","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T00:45:56","slug":"cigarettes-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/21\/cigarettes-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"Cigarettes Kill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/us_world\/2009\/03\/12\/2009-03-12_man_87_dies_on_bike_after_clothes_burst_.html\" target=\"_blank\">from the NY Daily News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; line-height: normal; color: #363636; font-size: 12px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 26px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px\">Man, 87, dies on bike after clothes burst in flames<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tbn0.google.com\/hosted\/images\/c?q=d5c34a856b5fc2d8_landing\" align=\"left\" height=\"360\" width=\"240\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" alt=\"from LIFE magazine\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px\" class=\"byline\">THE ASSOCIATED PRESS<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 0px; color: #8f8c8c; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px\" class=\"datestamp\">Friday, March 13th 2009, 2:46 AM<\/p>\n<p>An 87-year-old\u00a0died when his clothes burst into flames while he was riding his bicycle on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/Long+Island\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #015fb6; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" title=\"Long Island\">Long Island<\/a>\u00a0Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/Joseph+Rusin\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #015fb6; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" title=\"Joseph Rusin\">Joseph Rusin<\/a>\u00a0was likely smoking a cigarette before he became engulfed in flames while cycling down Burkhardt Ave. in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/Bethpage\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #015fb6; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" title=\"Bethpage\">Bethpage<\/a>, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>A passing motorist saw Rusin rolling on the ground and used a fire extinguisher to douse the flames.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/Nassau+County\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #015fb6; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" title=\"Nassau County\">Nassau County<\/a>\u00a0Detective Sgt. Les Meister said the fire was not suspicious. County Fire Marshal spokesman\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/Vincent+McManus\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #015fb6; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" title=\"Vincent McManus\">Vincent McManus<\/a>\u00a0said it&#8217;s likely that the cigarette ignited Rusin&#8217;s nylon jacket.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/us_world\/2009\/03\/12\/2009-03-12_man_87_dies_on_bike_after_clothes_burst_.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to read at NYDailyNews.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the NY Daily News Man, 87, dies on bike after clothes burst in flames THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Friday, March 13th 2009, 2:46 AM An 87-year-old\u00a0died when his clothes burst into flames while he was riding his bicycle on\u00a0Long Island\u00a0Thursday. Joseph Rusin\u00a0was likely smoking a cigarette before he became engulfed in flames while cycling down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}