{"id":17356,"date":"2009-07-25T07:07:42","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T14:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=17356"},"modified":"2009-07-25T07:07:42","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T14:07:42","slug":"motorcycle-street-kalamazoo-chopper-fest-3-celebrates-two-wheeled-freedom-expecting-biggest-turnout-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=17356","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Street &#8211; Kalamazoo Chopper Fest 3 celebrates two-wheeled freedom, expecting biggest turnout yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When Larry &#8220;LD&#8221; Davidson was 2, he told Santa he wanted a motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When he was 5, he rode his first, a minibike. At 8, he&#8217;d buzz the minibike around the neighboring drive-in to catch a glimpse of &#8220;Easy Rider&#8221; and all the bikers watching the flick in the lot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It was the late &#8217;60s, and though he was in the little town of Caro in Michigan&#8217;s thumb, Davidson was getting schooled in biker culture. It was all about living free, but on the outside of polite society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;All we represent to them, man, is &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/entertainment\/kalamazoo\/index.ssf\/2009\/07\/chopper_fest_3_celebrates_twow.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Larry &#8220;LD&#8221; Davidson was 2, he told Santa he wanted a motorcycle. When he was 5, he rode his first, a minibike. At 8, he&#8217;d buzz the minibike around the neighboring drive-in to catch a glimpse of &#8220;Easy Rider&#8221; and all the bikers watching the flick in the lot. It was the late &#8217;60s, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-street-riding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17356","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=17356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17357,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17356\/revisions\/17357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}