{"id":21872,"date":"2009-10-18T11:15:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T18:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=21872"},"modified":"2009-10-18T13:10:50","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T20:10:50","slug":"cycling-bmx-skateboard-dont-believe-the-stereotypes-action-sports-athletes-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=21872","title":{"rendered":"Cycling BMX Skateboard &#8211; Don&#8217;t believe the stereotypes, action-sports athletes say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Wearing a backward Pirelli hat and a DC shirt, Chad Kagy sat on his bike beside a 14-foot vert ramp at the Dew Tour&#8217;s PlayStation Pro at Amway Arena on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Hours later, he was riding that same ramp, flipping and spinning through the air as high as 25 feet off the ground. Sound crazy?<\/p>\n<p>Hardly. Kagy and other action-sports athletes have been branded as &#8220;extreme&#8221; and &#8220;crazy,&#8221; but if you ask them, they would give a better description\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/sports\/orl-sportsdew-tour-17101709oct17,0,6040927.story\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wearing a backward Pirelli hat and a DC shirt, Chad Kagy sat on his bike beside a 14-foot vert ramp at the Dew Tour&#8217;s PlayStation Pro at Amway Arena on Thursday. Hours later, he was riding that same ramp, flipping and spinning through the air as high as 25 feet off the ground. Sound crazy? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,5,6,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","category-board-sports","category-cycling","category-skateboard-mountain-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21872","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=21872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21934,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21872\/revisions\/21934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}