{"id":1540,"date":"2009-02-15T23:50:12","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T19:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2009-02-26T23:52:37","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T19:52:37","slug":"inline-speed-skating-competition-glides-into-roanoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1540","title":{"rendered":"Inline speed skating competition glides into Roanoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1541\" title=\"inline-speed\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/inline-speed.jpg\" alt=\"inline-speed\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/inline-speed.jpg 320w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/inline-speed-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Verdana;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"storyBody\" style=\"display: inline;\">\n<p>Olympic fans may soon get the chance to cheer for another sport.<\/p>\n<p>Inline speed skating is not your average roll around the rink, rather a sport gaining momentum around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The annual Blue Ridge Challenge is the largest inline speed skating competition in the U.S.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s been held in Roanoke for the past four years.\u00c2\u00a0 The competition is open to both the young and old.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes you fall; like I fell today&#8230; it hurts,&#8221; says seven-year-old Jake Guill&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wdbj7.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=9846498&amp;nav=menu368_10_4_14\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 Olympic fans may soon get the chance to cheer for another sport. Inline speed skating is not your average roll around the rink, rather a sport gaining momentum around the world. The annual Blue Ridge Challenge is the largest inline speed skating competition in the U.S.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s been held in Roanoke for the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skate-roller-inline-ice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540","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=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}