{"id":3619,"date":"2009-03-13T13:38:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T21:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3619"},"modified":"2009-03-17T14:42:45","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T21:42:45","slug":"cycling-bmx-steve-swope-and-the-old-school-bmx-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3619","title":{"rendered":"Cycling BMX &#8211; Steve Swope and the Old School BMX Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because of people like Steve Swope, I&#8217;m happy to say that BMX as a culture is maturing quite nicely. In case you don&#8217;t know who Steve is, you best recognize, for he made a huge impact on BMX for a number of reasons. As far as I know, Steve is the first guy to actually grind his pegs on a BMX bike (and also grind to fakie, which on a vert ramp, is no easy task.) Eventually, that one move transcended into the streets, and we all know where it&#8217;s gone since. So thank Steve next time you peg grind anything.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, Steve, along with Mat Hoffman &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/bmx\/blog?post=3977263\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of people like Steve Swope, I&#8217;m happy to say that BMX as a culture is maturing quite nicely. In case you don&#8217;t know who Steve is, you best recognize, for he made a huge impact on BMX for a number of reasons. As far as I know, Steve is the first guy to actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619","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=3619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4153,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions\/4153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}