{"id":45353,"date":"2011-03-02T07:15:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T14:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=45353"},"modified":"2011-03-02T07:15:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T14:15:35","slug":"cyclist-struggled-to-control-his-bike-when-earthquake-struck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=45353","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist struggled to control his bike when earthquake struck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SURREAL: Grafton resident David Kraitzick was riding his bike just 5km from Christchurch&#8217;s CBD when the earthquake hit last week.<\/p>\n<p>David Kraitzick thought he had punctured the front tyre of his bike as he cycled the last 5km into Christchurch&#8217;s CBD after a 450km trip around the South Island.<\/p>\n<p>But as he swerved across the road, struggling to keep in control of the bike, he heard several car alarms going off and realised it was an earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was insane. I couldn&#8217;t believe it.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/auckland\/local-news\/east-bays-courier\/4716858\/Cyclist-struggled-to-control-his-bike-when-earthquake-struck\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SURREAL: Grafton resident David Kraitzick was riding his bike just 5km from Christchurch&#8217;s CBD when the earthquake hit last week. David Kraitzick thought he had punctured the front tyre of his bike as he cycled the last 5km into Christchurch&#8217;s CBD after a 450km trip around the South Island. But as he swerved across the [&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-45353","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\/45353","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=45353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45355,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45353\/revisions\/45355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}