{"id":136626,"date":"2017-10-21T10:33:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T17:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=136626"},"modified":"2017-10-21T10:33:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T17:33:15","slug":"bmx-racing-is-rad-and-totally-back-from-the-80s-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=136626","title":{"rendered":"BMX racing is rad and totally back from the &#8217;80s (CNN)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DeSoto, Texas (CNN) The 1980s are alive and well in the heartland of America. BMX.\u00a0 Three letters that evoke &#8212; for anyone Generation X and older &#8212; a cultural Trapper Keeper of desirable possessions including Nike Air, Atari, Walkmans, Vans, MTV and of course that conduit of childhood freedom and rebellion, the Bicycle Motorcross.<\/p>\n<p>Picture unsupervised latchkey kids gathered around VCRs in suburban basements to watch grainy, overly recopied BMX videos of tricks and races. This happened and it was totally awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Born out of the &#8217;70s motorcycle race scene in southern California as kids tried to emulate the adults on their own dirt bikes, BMX was a &#8220;sport created by kids, for kids,&#8221; explained John David\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DeSoto, Texas (CNN) The 1980s are alive and well in the heartland of America. BMX.\u00a0 Three letters that evoke &#8212; for anyone Generation X and older &#8212; a cultural Trapper Keeper of desirable possessions including Nike Air, Atari, Walkmans, Vans, MTV and of course that conduit of childhood freedom and rebellion, the Bicycle Motorcross. Picture [&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-136626","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\/136626","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=136626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136627,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136626\/revisions\/136627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}