{"id":20721,"date":"2009-09-23T15:33:54","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T22:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=20721"},"modified":"2009-09-23T15:34:09","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T22:34:09","slug":"motorcycle-motocross-cycling-bmx-mcgrath-inducted-into-bmx-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=20721","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Motocross Cycling BMX &#8211; McGrath Inducted Into BMX Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday evening, September 17th, 2009, Jeremy McGrath was inducted into the BMX Hall of Fame at the San Diego Hall of Champions located in San Diego \u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Balboa Park. With close to 300 guests gathering for the Induction Dinner and Award Ceremony, McGrath had this to say about his newly bestowed honor, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am just so happy to be part of this wonderful event and honored that the ABA has presented ME with this Lifetime Achievement Award, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m really kinda surprised by it all, but pleasantly surprised of course!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>McGrath, along with six other honorees, represent BMX racing and Freestyle BMX from the 1970\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and 1980\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and one industry contributor. The inductees are Danny Oakley (1960\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and 1970\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pioneer); Jeremy McGrath (past BMXer lifetime achievement award); D.D. Leone (1980\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Professional Racer); Troy Lee (BMX Industry contributor, Troy Lee Designs); R.L. Osborn and Mike Buff (legendary BMX Action Trick Team); and Eddie Fiola (freestyle Pioneer)&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcycle-usa.com\/5\/4654\/Motorcycle-Article\/McGrath-Inducted-Into-BMX-Hall-of-Fame.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday evening, September 17th, 2009, Jeremy McGrath was inducted into the BMX Hall of Fame at the San Diego Hall of Champions located in San Diego \u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Balboa Park. With close to 300 guests gathering for the Induction Dinner and Award Ceremony, McGrath had this to say about his newly bestowed honor, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6,43,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","category-cycling","category-motocross","category-motorcycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20721","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=20721"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20725,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20721\/revisions\/20725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}