{"id":48619,"date":"2021-03-24T17:51:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T21:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=48619"},"modified":"2021-03-24T17:51:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T21:51:23","slug":"nelson-bc-actress-and-songwriter-brings-her-near-death-collision-with-a-drunk-driver-to-the-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/nelson-bc-actress-and-songwriter-brings-her-near-death-collision-with-a-drunk-driver-to-the-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson BC actress and songwriter brings her near-death collision with a drunk driver to the stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a sunny Sunday afternoon in June 2013, Nelson BC\u2019s Pat Henman was driving home on the highway near Invermere with her 19-year-old daughter Maia, when they were struck head-on by a drunk driver.<\/p>\n<p>Although both survived, their physical injuries still remain, as does the emotional toll on both of them, their family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>Henman, a veteran of the Canadian theatre and music industry, having toured the country for most of the 1980s, has written a book about the horrifying experience called Beyond The Legal Limit.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s also been inspired to share insight into the crash in a way that\u2019s always come naturally to her \u2014 from the stage, with songs that express the intensity and the joy of the life changing event.<\/p>\n<p>Henman spoke on Kootenay Co-op Radio's current affairs program about the production, emotional feedback from other victims of drunk driving and her meeting with the female driver who nearly took the life of she and her daughter Maia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a sunny Sunday afternoon in June 2013, Nelson BC\u2019s Pat Henman was driving home on the highway near Invermere with her 19-year-old daughter Maia, when they were struck head-on by a drunk driver. Although both survived, their physical injuries still remain, as does the emotional toll on both of them, their family and friends.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":48622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219],"tags":[],"radio":[1420],"origine":[280,2165,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48619"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=48619"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=48619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}