{"id":115145,"date":"2016-02-10T20:33:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T03:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=115145"},"modified":"2016-02-10T20:33:17","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T03:33:17","slug":"concussion-questions-haunt-bmx-after-dave-mirras-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=115145","title":{"rendered":"Concussion questions haunt BMX after Dave Mirra&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When BMX freestyler Jamie Bestwick first started his career riding ramps and performing gravity-defying tricks, he landed on his head so hard his helmet split.<\/p>\n<p>Even though he was knocked cold and forgot he was at a beach event rather than far away in his home town, Bestwick was back competing the next day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[A concussion] is not something that\u2019s visible like a broken hand, or a pulled hamstring where you\u2019re walking with a limp,\u201d Bestwick said. \u201cIt\u2019s like you had a couple too many [drinks], like you had a bit of a hangover. Back then you threw caution to the wind because who cares?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now Bestwick, and others\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2016\/feb\/10\/concussion-questions-haunt-bmx-riders-after-dave-mirras-death\" 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>When BMX freestyler Jamie Bestwick first started his career riding ramps and performing gravity-defying tricks, he landed on his head so hard his helmet split. Even though he was knocked cold and forgot he was at a beach event rather than far away in his home town, Bestwick was back competing the next day. \u201c[A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6,72,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","category-cycling","category-fitness-nutrition","category-mt-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115145","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=115145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115146,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115145\/revisions\/115146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}