{"id":162629,"date":"2022-02-12T16:43:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T00:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=162629"},"modified":"2022-02-12T16:43:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T00:43:12","slug":"bmx-helping-topeka-boy-learn-to-socialize-while-living-with-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=162629","title":{"rendered":"BMX helping Topeka boy learn to socialize while living with autism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sports can have a way of changing someone\u2019s life for the better.<\/p>\n<p>For a local family, BMX (Bicycle Motocross) has been a way to get their boys up and active. But for one of the kids, it\u2019s helped him communicate and socialize in a way his parents didn\u2019t see coming.<\/p>\n<p>At just nine- and six-years old, the Phillips boys are stacking up the BMX trophies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have so many I\u2019m giving them back to the track,\u201d Jake Phillips said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to put some outside,\u201d Luke Phillips recalled about his BMX trophy collection\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksnt.com\/community\/someone-you-should-know\/bmx-helping-topeka-boy-learn-to-socialize-while-living-with-autism\/\" 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>Sports can have a way of changing someone\u2019s life for the better. For a local family, BMX (Bicycle Motocross) has been a way to get their boys up and active. But for one of the kids, it\u2019s helped him communicate and socialize in a way his parents didn\u2019t see coming. At just nine- and six-years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","category-cycling","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162629","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=162629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162630,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162629\/revisions\/162630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}