{"id":38857,"date":"2010-10-17T07:01:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T14:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=38857"},"modified":"2010-10-17T07:01:45","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T14:01:45","slug":"cyclist-gets-ready-for-solo-trip-around-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=38857","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist gets ready for solo trip around Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Jolandie Rust was five when she fell in love with cycling on a pink BMX with training wheels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now 26, she is determined to spend nearly three years in the saddle on an epic ride around Africa &#8211; all alone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The waitress, who lives in Johannesburg, will set off early next year on a 40,000km journey through 34countries, including Somalia. There will be no back-up vehicles, management team or administrative office &#8211; just a bicycle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;I am fully aware of all the risks and\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/sport\/other\/article710843.ece\/Cyclist-gets-ready-for-solo-trip-around-Africa\" 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>Jolandie Rust was five when she fell in love with cycling on a pink BMX with training wheels. Now 26, she is determined to spend nearly three years in the saddle on an epic ride around Africa &#8211; all alone. The waitress, who lives in Johannesburg, will set off early next year on a 40,000km [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6,39,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","category-cycling","category-mt-bike","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38857","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=38857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38858,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38857\/revisions\/38858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}