{"id":18712,"date":"2009-08-15T17:30:40","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T00:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=18712"},"modified":"2009-08-15T17:32:16","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T00:32:16","slug":"motorcycle-street-riding-with-the-harley-herd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=18712","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Street &#8211; Riding with the Harley herd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you close your eyes for just a moment and stick your fingers in your ears, you could almost be standing in the middle of a proper wild west town in the heart of the open plains of the US. The main street has all the normal attributes of small-town America. Amongst the smattering of junk stores and restaurants, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a grocery store, a pharmacy and a very cowboy-esque watering hole that really needs a set of swinging doors and a horse tied up outside.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The\u00c2\u00a0problem is, sticking your fingers in your ears won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t block the noise of the thousands of thundering, V-twin motorcycles lumbering past you on the street. Because this town is Sturgis, and this is the Black Hills Classic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What that means to Nowheresville and its 6,442 inhabitants is that the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest motorcycle rally is once again in town, and it is time to party\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20090815\/MOTORING\/708149945\/1042\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you close your eyes for just a moment and stick your fingers in your ears, you could almost be standing in the middle of a proper wild west town in the heart of the open plains of the US. The main street has all the normal attributes of small-town America. Amongst the smattering of [&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-18712","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\/18712","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=18712"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18715,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18712\/revisions\/18715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}