{"id":47892,"date":"2011-04-14T06:36:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T13:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=47892"},"modified":"2011-04-14T06:40:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T13:40:23","slug":"bmx-zac-costa-nor-cal-bmxer-turned-biologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=47892","title":{"rendered":"BMX &#8211; Zac Costa: Nor Cal BMXer turned biologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Zac Costa is 26-year-old scientist and BMXer originally from Santa Rosa, Calif. He&#8217;s made some marks on the BMX world with a few clips and photos here and there, notably with his section in Franchise&#8217;s Web releases and the DVD &#8220;Cuttin&#8217; It Deep&#8221; a couple years back. But Zac isn&#8217;t laying low or intentionally avoiding the spotlight, he&#8217;s just busy. In 2009, he began his Master&#8217;s degree in Biology at Virginia Commonwealth University and hasn&#8217;t stopped since. Working closely with his advisor and boss, Zac has had the opportunity to visit Panama&#8217;s rain forest and get field experience working with reptiles and amphibians, specifically tadpoles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But Zac is no slouch and not the type to forget about BMX when his &#8220;adult&#8221; life started\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/bmx\/blog\/_\/post\/6345355\/nor-cal-bmxer-turned-biologist\" 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>Zac Costa is 26-year-old scientist and BMXer originally from Santa Rosa, Calif. He&#8217;s made some marks on the BMX world with a few clips and photos here and there, notably with his section in Franchise&#8217;s Web releases and the DVD &#8220;Cuttin&#8217; It Deep&#8221; a couple years back. But Zac isn&#8217;t laying low or intentionally avoiding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","category-cycling","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47892","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=47892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47894,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47892\/revisions\/47894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}