{"id":118083,"date":"2016-04-28T06:40:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T13:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=118083"},"modified":"2016-04-28T06:40:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T13:40:30","slug":"aaron-wheelz-fotheringham-proves-spina-bifida-doesnt-hold-him-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=118083","title":{"rendered":"Aaron &#8216;Wheelz&#8217; Fotheringham Proves Spina Bifida Doesn&#8217;t Hold Him Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Aaron Fotheringham, using a wheelchair doesn&#8217;t mean adventure isn&#8217;t possible.<\/p>\n<p>The Las Vegas native, who was born with spina bifida, started using a wheelchair around the age of 8 due to chronic pain. At 24, he&#8217;s now competing in national BMX competitions and doing what most pros can&#8217;t achieve.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I first started going to skate parks when I was around the age of 8\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/article\/aaron-wheelz-fotherinham-wings-for-life?xid=rss-topheadlines&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+people%2Fheadlines+%28PEOPLE.com%3A+Top+Headlines%29\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iI_N5T3pmxQ?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Aaron Fotheringham, using a wheelchair doesn&#8217;t mean adventure isn&#8217;t possible. The Las Vegas native, who was born with spina bifida, started using a wheelchair around the age of 8 due to chronic pain. At 24, he&#8217;s now competing in national BMX competitions and doing what most pros can&#8217;t achieve. &#8220;I first started going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118083","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=118083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118084,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118083\/revisions\/118084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}