{"id":12776,"date":"2009-05-21T19:54:16","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T02:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12776"},"modified":"2009-05-21T19:54:16","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T02:54:16","slug":"cycling-bmx-bmx-racing-truly-is-a-sport-for-all-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12776","title":{"rendered":"Cycling BMX &#8211; BMX racing truly is a sport for all ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Close to 200 racers age 4-50 and their families from Illinois and four surrounding states descended on the Waukegan BMX track last weekend for the Midwest Regional competition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The three-day event was condensed into two due to Friday&#8217;s rains, but thanks to the Waukegan Park District crew, the dirt track was in near-perfect shape for the Saturday races. The event attracted riders from Iowa, Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin, as well as Illinois because of its quadruple-points possibilities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;You get points for regional rankings,&#8221; explained track president Steve Stanziano, 36, of Zion&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suburbanchicagonews.com\/newssun\/sports\/1584276,5_2_WA21_MOTOX_S1.article\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- BlogBurst ContentEnd --><!-- start sidebar --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close to 200 racers age 4-50 and their families from Illinois and four surrounding states descended on the Waukegan BMX track last weekend for the Midwest Regional competition. The three-day event was condensed into two due to Friday&#8217;s rains, but thanks to the Waukegan Park District crew, the dirt track was in near-perfect shape for [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12776","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\/12776","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=12776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12778,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12776\/revisions\/12778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}