{"id":50389,"date":"2011-06-09T13:58:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T20:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=50389"},"modified":"2011-06-09T13:58:43","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T20:58:43","slug":"motorcycle-roadracing-is-motogp-becoming-too-soft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=50389","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Roadracing &#8211; Is MotoGP becoming too soft?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">With penalties handed out to Marco Simoncelli and Johann Zarco, is MotoGP becoming too soft?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hard, unrelenting and passionate, MotoGP has always been a bastion of gladiatorial battles. But officials at the Le Mans and Catalunya Moto GP rounds launched an offensive against what they said was over-aggressive racing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One particular target has been\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/motor-sports\/moto-gp\/with-penalties-handed-out-to-marco-simoncelli-and-johann-zarco-is-motogp-becoming-too-soft\/story-fn2ms4i4-1226071695576\" 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>With penalties handed out to Marco Simoncelli and Johann Zarco, is MotoGP becoming too soft? Hard, unrelenting and passionate, MotoGP has always been a bastion of gladiatorial battles. But officials at the Le Mans and Catalunya Moto GP rounds launched an offensive against what they said was over-aggressive racing. One particular target has been\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-roadracing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50389","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=50389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50390,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50389\/revisions\/50390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}