{"id":24803,"date":"2009-12-05T12:41:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T19:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=24803"},"modified":"2009-12-05T12:45:56","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T19:45:56","slug":"motorcycle-off-road-ktm-rider-chris-birch-declared-winner-of-the-roof-of-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=24803","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Off-road &#8211; KTM RIDER CHRIS BIRCH DECLARED WINNER OF THE ROOF OF AFRICA!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The 2009 edition of the Roof of Africa, well known as the &#8220;Mother of all Hard Enduro events&#8221; was won by New Zealander Chris Birch onboard his KTM 300 after times were adjusted at the end of the three day event. Birch also won in 2008.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The &#8220;Roof&#8221; has been run for 42 years and takes riders through terrain in the southern African country of Lesotho that demands immense physical effort and skills. This year riders also had to face extreme heat up to 42 degrees Celsius and &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mxnewsfeed.com\/article.php?artid=2590\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=SZ7wAI9J8G0&#038;offerid=171598.10000008&#038;type=4&#038;subid=0\"><IMG alt=\"Logo_468x60\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nautica.com\/graphics\/promo\/NAU\/naut_logo_468x60.jpg\"><\/a><IMG border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=SZ7wAI9J8G0&#038;bids=171598.10000008&#038;type=4&#038;subid=0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2009 edition of the Roof of Africa, well known as the &#8220;Mother of all Hard Enduro events&#8221; was won by New Zealander Chris Birch onboard his KTM 300 after times were adjusted at the end of the three day event. Birch also won in 2008. The &#8220;Roof&#8221; has been run for 42 years and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-off-road-dirt-track"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24803","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=24803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24806,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24803\/revisions\/24806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}