{"id":49425,"date":"2011-05-19T06:55:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T13:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=49425"},"modified":"2011-05-19T06:55:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T13:55:38","slug":"cycling-the-secret-to-becoming-an-elite-cyclist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=49425","title":{"rendered":"Cycling &#8211; The secret to becoming an elite cyclist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Watching the Amgen Tour of California cyclists wrap up their day at the office Wednesday with a five-kilometer climb straight up the side of a San Jose mountain, one might wonder: How the heck do they do that?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The finish of the Tour&#8217;s Stage 4 is a three-mile series of asphalt ski jumps, only the &#8220;skiers&#8221; are skiing the wrong way\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2011\/05\/18\/SP4O1JHP98.DTL\" 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>Watching the Amgen Tour of California cyclists wrap up their day at the office Wednesday with a five-kilometer climb straight up the side of a San Jose mountain, one might wonder: How the heck do they do that? The finish of the Tour&#8217;s Stage 4 is a three-mile series of asphalt ski jumps, only 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":[6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49425","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=49425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49426,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49425\/revisions\/49426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}