{"id":17477,"date":"2009-07-27T11:11:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T18:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=17477"},"modified":"2012-08-05T12:16:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T19:16:30","slug":"motorcycle-fmx-ronnie-renner-launches-63-feet-above-ground-on-motorcycle-sets-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=17477","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle FMX &#8211; Ronnie Renner launches 63 feet above ground on motorcycle, sets record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You have to hand it to Red Bull-sponsored motorcycle riders for continuing to astonish fans with their remarkable achievements, and to the makers of the energy drink for adeptly using these athletes to maintain high visibility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Two weeks ago, Robbie Maddison performed a back flip across the 100-foot gap of London&#8217;s fabled Tower Bridge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On Saturday at Chicago&#8217;s Butler Field at Grant Park, with the city&#8217;s skyline as a backdrop, Ronnie Renner launched himself 63 feet, 5 inches above ground, eclipsing the world record he set last year&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/outposts\/2009\/07\/ronnie-renner-launches-63-feet-above-ground-on-motorcycle-sets-record-.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zAOxC8KQU8E\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zAOxC8KQU8E\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have to hand it to Red Bull-sponsored motorcycle riders for continuing to astonish fans with their remarkable achievements, and to the makers of the energy drink for adeptly using these athletes to maintain high visibility. Two weeks ago, Robbie Maddison performed a back flip across the 100-foot gap of London&#8217;s fabled Tower Bridge. On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fmx","category-motorcycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17477","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=17477"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17479,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17477\/revisions\/17479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}