{"id":11632,"date":"2009-05-07T11:57:37","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T18:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11632"},"modified":"2009-05-07T11:57:37","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T18:57:37","slug":"motorcycle-fmx-whats-in-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11632","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle FMX &#8211; What&#8217;s In the Water?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Aussies (and New Zealander&#8217;s) have replaced the Euro&#8217;s as the next region to take down the American FMX Empire<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There has been a quiet invasion happening in the world of FMX. An invasion so insidious that few may have noticed it, but I fear that now it may be too late to avert.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of years ago, my concern was that those pesky Euros were going to come storming into the Americas and that, once they figured out the big dirt courses here, they would be an unstoppable force. We had some notable visits from riders like France&#8217;s Manu Troux and Germany&#8217;s Busty Wolter. Troux executed what is still probably one of the most epic bike ejections of all time at an event in Colorado Springs and went home with a broken femur&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/fmx\/blog?post=4147265\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aussies (and New Zealander&#8217;s) have replaced the Euro&#8217;s as the next region to take down the American FMX Empire There has been a quiet invasion happening in the world of FMX. An invasion so insidious that few may have noticed it, but I fear that now it may be too late to avert. 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":[42,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fmx","category-motorcycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11632","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=11632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11633,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11632\/revisions\/11633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}