{"id":118980,"date":"2016-05-24T06:43:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T13:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=118980"},"modified":"2016-05-24T06:43:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T13:43:33","slug":"doctors-say-late-bmx-legend-dave-mirra-had-cte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=118980","title":{"rendered":"Doctors say late BMX legend Dave Mirra had CTE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BMX icon Dave Mirra, who died in February, suffered from the type of chronic brain damage that has shown up in the brains of dozens of football players, a University of Toronto neuropathologist has concluded. Multiple neuropathologists confirmed the diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>Mirra is the first action sports athlete to be diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a neurodegenerative disease that can lead to dementia, memory loss and depression. He died on Feb. 4 from\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/story\/_\/id\/15614274\/bmx-legend-dave-mirra-diagnosed-cte\" 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>BMX icon Dave Mirra, who died in February, suffered from the type of chronic brain damage that has shown up in the brains of dozens of football players, a University of Toronto neuropathologist has concluded. Multiple neuropathologists confirmed the diagnosis. Mirra is the first action sports athlete to be diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, 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":[37,6,38,11,39,41,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","category-cycling","category-cyclocross","category-misc","category-mt-bike","category-road-bike","category-trials-riding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118980","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=118980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118981,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118980\/revisions\/118981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}