{"id":38819,"date":"2010-10-16T12:50:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T19:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=38819"},"modified":"2010-10-16T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T20:03:00","slug":"motorcycle-video-hall-of-famer-shrimp-burns-goes-all-out-at-1921-beverly-hills-calif-board-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=38819","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Video &#8211; Hall of Famer Shrimp Burns Goes All Out at 1921 Beverly Hills, Calif., Board Track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"eow-description\">Rare 1921 video of Motorcycle Hall of Famer Shrimp Burns at a 1921 board track race in Beverly Hills, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>Albert &#8220;Shrimp&#8221; Burns became one of the most popular motorcycle racers in the early 20th century for hurtling himself with abandon around board tracks nicknamed &#8220;murderdromes.&#8221; Here is his daring 1921 Beverly HIlls victory on an Indian captured on film.<\/p>\n<p>By the time he arrived at the Beverly HIlls Speedway in April 1921, the 22-year-old Burns had a reputation for daring racing. Growing up in Oakland, Calif., Burns was known to steal <a class=\"tagautolink autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #motorcycles\" href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/tag\/motorcycles\/\"><span style=\"color: #303030;\">motorcycles<\/span><\/a> at the age of 10; just shy of his 15th birthday, he beat several pro riders in a race, getting himself barred for a couple of competitions and earning the nickname &#8220;Shrimp.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/5664845\/the-greatest-victory-of-a-20s-motorcycle-daredevil-caught-on-film\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1aVuu0-q8dQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1aVuu0-q8dQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rare 1921 video of Motorcycle Hall of Famer Shrimp Burns at a 1921 board track race in Beverly Hills, Calif. Albert &#8220;Shrimp&#8221; Burns became one of the most popular motorcycle racers in the early 20th century for hurtling himself with abandon around board tracks nicknamed &#8220;murderdromes.&#8221; Here is his daring 1921 Beverly HIlls victory on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,45,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-off-road-dirt-track","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38819","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=38819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38821,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38819\/revisions\/38821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}