{"id":122271,"date":"2016-09-05T20:16:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T03:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=122271"},"modified":"2016-09-05T20:16:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T03:16:10","slug":"are-you-a-natural-born-thrill-seeker-researchers-reveal-the-science-of-daredevils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=122271","title":{"rendered":"Are you a natural born thrill-seeker? Researchers reveal the science of daredevils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been the most deadly summer for wingsuit flying to date.<\/p>\n<p>But what makes some people want to base jump off a cliff, binge drink to oblivion or hitchhike with strangers while others don&#8217;t even enjoy a rollercoaster ride?<\/p>\n<p>Is there such a thing as scaredy-cat gene or a daredevil brain structure? Or is our level of attraction to danger down to how protective our parents were?<\/p>\n<p>Whether our weakness is extreme sports, speeding\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-3775060\/Are-natural-born-thrill-seeker-Researchers-reveal-science-daredevils.html\" 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>It has been the most deadly summer for wingsuit flying to date. But what makes some people want to base jump off a cliff, binge drink to oblivion or hitchhike with strangers while others don&#8217;t even enjoy a rollercoaster ride? Is there such a thing as scaredy-cat gene or a daredevil brain structure? Or is [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122271","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=122271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122272,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122271\/revisions\/122272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}