{"id":12164,"date":"2026-02-11T01:39:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T01:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=12164"},"modified":"2026-02-11T01:39:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T01:39:29","slug":"cause-of-death-confirmed-for-two-25-year-old-colorado-hunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=12164","title":{"rendered":"Cause of Death Confirmed for Two 25-Year-Old Colorado Hunters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Conejos County coroner said preliminary findings indicate Andrew Porter and Ian Stasko, both 25, died after being struck by lightning. He described their injuries as consistent with a powerful electrical shock, noting small burn marks similar to brief contact with a dying match. Final autopsy reports confirming the cause and manner of death are expected in about eight weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Conejos County coroner said preliminary findings indicate Andrew Porter and Ian Stasko, both 25, died after being struck by lightning. He described their injuries as consistent with a powerful electrical shock, noting small burn marks similar to brief contact with a dying match. Final autopsy reports confirming the cause and manner of death are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":12165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}