{"id":391687,"date":"2015-09-03T09:49:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T14:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=391687"},"modified":"2015-09-04T10:57:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T15:57:31","slug":"sickle-cell-blamed-in-football-players-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=391687","title":{"rendered":"Sickle Cell Blamed in Football Player&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/09\/JoshWarrenInstagram_1435942964226_1781363_ver1.0.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/09\/JoshWarrenInstagram_1435942964226_1781363_ver1.0-150x150.png\" alt=\"JoshWarrenInstagram_1435942964226_1781363_ver1.0\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-391690\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW &#8212; A condition said to be among the top non-traumatic killers of high school and college athletes is blamed in the death of a Pine Tree High School football player. According to KETK, a cause of death report obtained Wednesday stated that defensive back Joshua &#8216;Josh&#8217; Warren, Longview, died of exertional sickling due to prolonged physical activity complicating sickle cell trait. The 16-year-old athlete died July 1 at Good Shepherd Medical Center, less than 24 hours after participating in a strength and conditioning workout at Pine Tree High School.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sickle cell trait is a hereditary condition that causes some red blood cells, which normally are round or oval, to change into a crescent shape, or to &#8220;sickle,&#8221; according to information from the Korey Stringer Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention of sudden death in sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; A condition said to be among the top non-traumatic killers of high school and college athletes is blamed in the death of a Pine Tree High School football player. According to KETK, a cause of death report obtained Wednesday stated that defensive back Joshua &#8216;Josh&#8217; Warren, Longview, died of exertional sickling due to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=391687\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sickle Cell Blamed in Football Player&#8217;s Death<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":391690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 07:08:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391691,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391687\/revisions\/391691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/391690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}