{"id":277983,"date":"2010-02-04T10:21:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T15:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a85fc7e1970b"},"modified":"2010-02-04T12:02:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T17:02:29","slug":"aerialist-who-fell-at-beverly-center-broke-numerous-bones-spent-7-weeks-in-wheelchair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/277983","title":{"rendered":"Aerialist who fell at Beverly Center broke numerous bones, spent 7 weeks in wheelchair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/media\/photo\/2009-11\/50783333.jpg\" style=\"width: 604px; height: 400px;\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>The air acrobat who fell three stories during a Christmas performance at the Beverly Center spent seven weeks in a wheelchair with numerous broken bones, she said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Romanowsky, 26, said on &quot;Good Morning America&quot; that <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/GMA\">she doesn&#8217;t<\/a> remember the accident.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It terrified a lot of people. Fortunately, I remember nothing,&quot; she said. &quot;That&#8217;s a blessing.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Romanowsky&#8217;s injuries were more serious than originally believed. She said she broke her pelvis in four places, shattered her wrist and broke six ribs.<\/p>\n<p>One witness said Romanowsky appeared to fall about 40 feet, from the third level of the shopping center to the first.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>She slipped while hanging upside down from a solid metal<br \/>\nhoop suspended from the ceiling during the finale of the show &quot;Hunky<br \/>\nSanta and the Candy Cane Girls.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>She managed to turn herself right side up before falling into a video<br \/>\nprojection cube. She was not wearing<br \/>\na harness, and there were no nets to break her fall.<\/p>\n<p>Romanowsky said she&#8217;s recovering well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Shelby Grad<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: A performance several days before the accident. Credit: Gary Friedman \/ Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>More breaking news in L.A. Now: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/02\/lapd-arrested-alleged-melrose-avenue-serial-burglar.html\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\">LAPD arrests alleged Melrose Avenue serial burglar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/02\/bell-police-fatally-shoot-man-after-chase-ends-in-south-gate.html\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Bell police fatally shoot man after chase ends in South Gate<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/02\/former-pico-rivera-councilman-arrested-on-perjury-charges.html\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Former Pico Rivera councilman arrested on perjury charges<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/02\/la-redlight-violation-fines-have-jumped-65-to-446-times-review-finds.html\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\">L.A. County red-light violation fines have jumped 65% to $446, Times review finds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The air acrobat who fell three stories during a Christmas performance at the Beverly Center spent seven weeks in a wheelchair with numerous broken bones, she said in an interview. Sarah Romanowsky, 26, said on &quot;Good Morning America&quot; that she doesn&#8217;t remember the accident. &quot;It terrified a lot of people. Fortunately, I remember nothing,&quot; she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}