{"id":22219,"date":"2009-10-26T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=22219"},"modified":"2009-10-26T14:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T21:51:00","slug":"motorcycle-roadracing-is-valentino-rossi-the-greatest-motorcycle-rider-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=22219","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Roadracing &#8211; Is Valentino Rossi the greatest motorcycle rider of all time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This flamboyant Italian won his 9th World title in Malaysia earlier today with a 3rd place finish in the MotoGP race. Affectionately known as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Doctor\u00e2\u20ac\u009d this 30 year old started his 125cc career on an Aprilia in 1996 and was crowned World 125cc Champion in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>He idolized his father, Graziano Rossi and despite any title that he won he only ever displayed the number 46 on his ride \u00e2\u20ac\u201c his father\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s racing number.<\/p>\n<p>That this young man, only 17 years of age, was&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therichmarksentinel.com\/rs_articles_contributors.asp?conid=3&amp;recid=766\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This flamboyant Italian won his 9th World title in Malaysia earlier today with a 3rd place finish in the MotoGP race. Affectionately known as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Doctor\u00e2\u20ac\u009d this 30 year old started his 125cc career on an Aprilia in 1996 and was crowned World 125cc Champion in 1997. He idolized his father, Graziano Rossi and despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-roadracing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22219","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=22219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22220,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22219\/revisions\/22220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}