{"id":151886,"date":"2019-07-13T18:23:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T01:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=151886"},"modified":"2019-07-13T18:31:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T01:31:33","slug":"motorcycle-video-easy-rider-at-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=151886","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Video &#8211; &#8216;Easy Rider&#8217; at 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Fonda\u00a0knows the precise moment he dreamt up the idea for\u00a0<em>Easy Rider<\/em>, the groundbreaking biker drama that helped rev up an American filmmaking movement when it was released in theaters 50 years ago on July 14, 1969.<\/p>\n<p>The actor, now 79, was attending a film exhibition convention in Canada on Sept. 26, 1967 to promote his new LSD-fueled Roger Corman-Jack Nicholson film <em>The Trip<\/em>.\u00a0Jack Valenti, the head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) who was quickly developing a reputation as &#8220;morals watchdog&#8221; as\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/easy-rider-peter-fonda-original-idea-interview-195718463.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GwST6mpT7Ds\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Fonda\u00a0knows the precise moment he dreamt up the idea for\u00a0Easy Rider, the groundbreaking biker drama that helped rev up an American filmmaking movement when it was released in theaters 50 years ago on July 14, 1969. The actor, now 79, was attending a film exhibition convention in Canada on Sept. 26, 1967 to promote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,47,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-motorcycle","category-street-riding","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151886","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=151886"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151888,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151886\/revisions\/151888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}