{"id":101860,"date":"2014-12-30T21:14:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T04:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=101860"},"modified":"2014-12-30T21:14:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T04:14:20","slug":"the-story-of-alex-zanardi-an-iron-man-with-plastic-legs-and-a-courageous-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=101860","title":{"rendered":"The story of Alex Zanardi: An Iron man with plastic legs and a courageous heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Formula 1 driver, a two-time CART series winner, an innovator, an athlete, a gold-medal winner at the Paralympics, but above all, a man with a true champion\u2019s attitude. He is a great character, who can talk for ages, and he is a person who has never understood what quitting is. Many sportsmen and women fall short of even getting close to the things which Alessandro Zanardi has achieved in his long sporting career.<\/p>\n<p>Such is the long list of his accomplishments. He started his career as a racing driver, but an on-track accident, because of which he lost both legs, changed his life forever. But, this didn\u2019t stop him from being competitive, and most importantly, didn\u2019t stop him to live\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportskeeda.com\/athletics\/the-story-of-alex-zanardi-a-remarkable-man\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Formula 1 driver, a two-time CART series winner, an innovator, an athlete, a gold-medal winner at the Paralympics, but above all, a man with a true champion\u2019s attitude. He is a great character, who can talk for ages, and he is a person who has never understood what quitting is. Many sportsmen and women [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,21,11,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-cycling","category-formula-1-indy-cars","category-misc","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101861,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101860\/revisions\/101861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}