{"id":51748,"date":"2011-07-10T08:53:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T15:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=51748"},"modified":"2011-07-10T08:54:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T15:54:40","slug":"skating-mom-helps-son-with-autism-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=51748","title":{"rendered":"Skating mom helps son with autism soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Fiend Club,&#8221; Lyra Stephens&#8217; roller derby persona, is a dark, fierce competitor, circling the rink fighting for the Deadutantes in bouts all over the South. She&#8217;s the captain of the team, which is part of the only derby league in Montgomery, Ala., the River Region Rollergirls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Derby is her passion and her stress-buster. It&#8217;s fun. It&#8217;s serious, physical business. She&#8217;s willing to get hurt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But when she&#8217;s simply Lyra, she&#8217;s also the mom of 5-year-old Sewell, who at age 2 was diagnosed with autism\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/yourlife.usatoday.com\/health\/medical\/autism\/story\/2011\/07\/Skating-mom-helps-son-with-autism-soar\/49243568\/1\" 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>&#8220;Fiend Club,&#8221; Lyra Stephens&#8217; roller derby persona, is a dark, fierce competitor, circling the rink fighting for the Deadutantes in bouts all over the South. She&#8217;s the captain of the team, which is part of the only derby league in Montgomery, Ala., the River Region Rollergirls. Derby is her passion and her stress-buster. It&#8217;s fun. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,49,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-skate-roller-inline-ice","category-skateboard-mountain-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51748","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=51748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51750,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51748\/revisions\/51750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}