{"id":16152,"date":"2009-07-09T13:51:54","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T20:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16152"},"modified":"2009-07-09T13:51:54","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T20:51:54","slug":"cycling-road-armstrong-reaches-tour-de-france-crossroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16152","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; Armstrong reaches Tour de France crossroads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">BARCELONA, Spain \u00e2\u20ac\u201c If he hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t made the most significant decision in recent cycling history, Lance Armstrong would probably have been relaxing in Texas on Thursday, a smattering of pudge around his middle and his family by his side.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Despite the creature comforts his comeback has forced him to forsake, and even with a broken collarbone in his preparation for the Tour de France, there haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been many days when Armstrong has pined for home while on his bike.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">An intensity of focus has been the constant thread through Armstrong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s career, the refusal to take as much as &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=ro-tourdefrance070909&amp;prov=yhoo&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BARCELONA, Spain \u00e2\u20ac\u201c If he hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t made the most significant decision in recent cycling history, Lance Armstrong would probably have been relaxing in Texas on Thursday, a smattering of pudge around his middle and his family by his side. Despite the creature comforts his comeback has forced him to forsake, and even with a broken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16152","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=16152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16154,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16152\/revisions\/16154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}