{"id":44060,"date":"2011-02-05T09:11:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T16:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=44060"},"modified":"2011-02-05T09:11:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T16:11:29","slug":"the-history-of-extreme-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=44060","title":{"rendered":"The History of Extreme Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Extreme Sports. We all know the images and ideals that these two little words conjure up when put together. Adrenalin. No Fear. Human v Nature. Liklihood of severe injury \u00e2\u20ac\u201c High. Yet for those of us who embrace extreme sports these things are gagged, tied up and pushed into the dark recesses of our brains and all we know is the excitement and passion for doing them. The over-arching name \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcExtreme Sports\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is banded about very freely nowadays and it has become a houshold term in our daily language, even my ancient relatives know what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m talking about. So my 2 main questions are: Where did these \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcextreme sports\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 spring from and how long have they been around?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Well the answer is: They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re OLD! Maybe we haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t always called them \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcextreme\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 or \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsports\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 but the fact is people have always attempted to\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/recreationandsportsblog.kpgolfpro.com\/5686\/the-history-of-extreme-sports\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/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>Extreme Sports. We all know the images and ideals that these two little words conjure up when put together. Adrenalin. No Fear. Human v Nature. Liklihood of severe injury \u00e2\u20ac\u201c High. Yet for those of us who embrace extreme sports these things are gagged, tied up and pushed into the dark recesses of our brains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44060","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=44060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44061,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44060\/revisions\/44061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}