{"id":1176,"date":"2009-02-11T01:41:49","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T21:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2009-02-26T01:43:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T21:43:41","slug":"being-corey-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1176","title":{"rendered":"Being Corey Martinez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1177\" title=\"cory\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/cory.bmp\" alt=\"cory\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the year 2000, Mat Hoffman and the HSA crew<\/strong> organized a run of contests known as the Crazy Freakin&#8217; Biker Series, or CFB for short. Even though the CFBs served as X-Games qualifiers for BMX, the comps retained a grassroots level vibe, set in dirty skateparks across the country with a multitude of classes and disciplines for both amateur and pro riders. This is where I first got to see Corey Martinez\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthen just 17 years old\u00e2\u20ac\u201don a BMX bike. He had traveled to the comp alongside friend and riding cohort Seth Kimbrough, who was already competing at a professional level. But Corey signed up &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 In the year 2000, Mat Hoffman and the HSA crew organized a run of contests known as the Crazy Freakin&#8217; Biker Series, or CFB for short. Even though the CFBs served as X-Games qualifiers for BMX, the comps retained a grassroots level vibe, set in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","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=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions\/1179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}