{"id":25998,"date":"2010-01-04T21:43:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T04:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=25998"},"modified":"2010-01-04T21:49:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T04:49:05","slug":"motorcycle-off-road-an-american-does-dakar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=25998","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Off-road &#8211; An American Does Dakar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last year about this time, we told you about the re-formulated Dakar Rally, moved from Africa to South America to address concerns about terrorism and other safety issues. That rally (won by Spaniard Marc Coma in a field of 235 riders) was a big success, with the rally organizers (the same outfit that puts on the Tour de France) claiming 2.2 billion TV viewers in 189 countries. This year, it&#8217;s back bigger than ever, but it&#8217;s still missing one element: a big American presence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Of the 161 motorcycles entered, just three are from the USA. But one of them is among the top competitors and\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcycledaily.com\/04january10_dakar.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Details &amp; Pictures<\/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>Last year about this time, we told you about the re-formulated Dakar Rally, moved from Africa to South America to address concerns about terrorism and other safety issues. That rally (won by Spaniard Marc Coma in a field of 235 riders) was a big success, with the rally organizers (the same outfit that puts on [&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-25998","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\/25998","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=25998"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26000,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25998\/revisions\/26000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}