{"id":10906,"date":"2009-04-30T12:15:06","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T19:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=10906"},"modified":"2009-04-30T12:15:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T19:15:06","slug":"cycling-road-armstrong-starts-his-climb-back-at-tour-of-the-gila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=10906","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; Armstrong Starts His Climb Back at Tour of the Gila"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When Lance Armstrong fought through the final few meters of a climb through desolate mountains under a searing sun and across the finish line, he was not wearing a cape or even a yellow jersey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Instead, Armstrong wore sunken cheeks and a look of anguish.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was hard,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Armstrong said Wednesday, trying to catch his breath shortly after finishing eighth in the four-hour, 94-mile opening stage of the Tour of the Gila. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was tough.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The race was &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/30\/sports\/othersports\/30cycling.html?_r=1&amp;ref=sports\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Lance Armstrong fought through the final few meters of a climb through desolate mountains under a searing sun and across the finish line, he was not wearing a cape or even a yellow jersey. Instead, Armstrong wore sunken cheeks and a look of anguish. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was hard,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Armstrong said Wednesday, trying to catch his [&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-10906","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\/10906","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=10906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10908,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10906\/revisions\/10908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}