{"id":182725,"date":"2025-12-14T02:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T02:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/182725\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T02:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T02:10:11","slug":"harness-racing-driver-out-of-coma-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/182725\/","title":{"rendered":"Harness racing driver out of coma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nathan Williamson. PHOTO: ODT FILES\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765674133_798_nathan_williamson_hs.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Nathan Williamson. PHOTO: ODT FILES<\/p>\n<p>A Southland horseman is out of a coma after a fall during a race in Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Williamson was driving\u00a0Captains Mistress at Alexandra Park when he was unseated from his cart near the winning post and fell on to the track on Friday,\u00a0Harness Racing New Zealand reported.<\/p>\n<p>He was seriously injured and taken to hospital, but was now out of a medically induced coma, and making\u00a0good progress today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Williamson grew up in North Otago and, with parents Phil and Bev and brothers Matt and Brad, has had a long association with harness racing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Allied Media\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathan Williamson. PHOTO: ODT FILES A Southland horseman is out of a coma after a fall during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-182725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}