{"id":1343,"date":"2009-02-12T11:08:06","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T07:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2009-03-17T20:32:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T03:32:55","slug":"taking-his-bike-to-the-air-thrills-crowd-and-daredevil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1343","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle FMX &#8211; Taking his bike to the air thrills crowd &#8212; and daredevil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1344\" title=\"fmx2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/fmx2-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"fmx2\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"listing_intro\">Shawn Conners grew up with a hearty dislike for sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"listing_intro\">So it&#8217;s interesting that he does his best work in some of the biggest arenas in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Dorset, Vt., native has no use for a bat, ball or puck, but he&#8217;s thrilling audiences in the growing world of extreme sports: The former motorcycle racer is one of the featured performers in freestyle motocross.<\/p>\n<p>Conners and eight others will participate in an International Freestyle Motocross Association competition Saturday night in Nationwide Arena&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbusdispatch.com\/live\/content\/weekender\/stories\/2009\/02\/12\/9A_SPORTS12_ART_02-12-09_T10_C2CRPO9.html?sid=101\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shawn Conners grew up with a hearty dislike for sports. So it&#8217;s interesting that he does his best work in some of the biggest arenas in the country. The Dorset, Vt., native has no use for a bat, ball or puck, but he&#8217;s thrilling audiences in the growing world of extreme sports: The former motorcycle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fmx","category-motorcycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","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=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4638,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/4638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}