{"id":1034,"date":"2009-02-10T21:41:42","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T17:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2009-03-17T21:12:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T04:12:26","slug":"bike-nuts-set-sights-on-santa-cruz-second-leg-of-amgen-tour-of-california-race-brings-throngs-of-cycling-enthusiasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1034","title":{"rendered":"Cycling &#8211; Bike Nuts Set Sights on Santa Cruz &#8211; Second leg of Amgen Tour of California race brings throngs of cycling enthusiasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1035\" title=\"lance\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/lance-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"lance\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For their honeymoon, Will and Melissa Calkins went to France. They didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go, however, to taste the cuisine or see the art. They went to stand on high mountain roads and celebrate their marriage by cheering their lungs out for five stages of the Tour de France.<\/p>\n<p>That was 2004, a year of complete domination by Lance Armstrong, who became the first person to win six Tours. Since then, the couple has continued cheering and continued riding. And though the extremely pregnant Melissa won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be making the trip from their home in Longmont, Colo. to Santa Cruz for the Stage 2 finish of the Amgen Tour of California this Monday, her husband is coming and so is &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santacruz.com\/News\/2009\/02\/10\/Bike_Nuts_Set_Sights_on_Santa_Cruz\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For their honeymoon, Will and Melissa Calkins went to France. They didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go, however, to taste the cuisine or see the art. They went to stand on high mountain roads and celebrate their marriage by cheering their lungs out for five stages of the Tour de France. That was 2004, a year of complete domination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","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=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4700,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/4700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}