{"id":52268,"date":"2011-07-24T09:47:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T16:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=52268"},"modified":"2011-07-24T09:47:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T16:47:04","slug":"cycling-cadal-evans-from-nearly-man-to-tour-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=52268","title":{"rendered":"Cycling &#8211; Cadal Evans: From nearly man to Tour champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Until now, Cadel Evans was better known for the things he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t achieve than for the ones he did.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That all changed with his victory Sunday in the Tour de France, catapulting Evans from cycling\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nearly man to global star\u00e2\u20ac\u201da position he already holds in his native Australia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Evans took a call of congratulations from Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard after he secured the title on Saturday in the time trial ahead of Sunday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largely ceremonial final stage in Paris\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=ap-tourdefrance-evansprofile\" 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>Until now, Cadel Evans was better known for the things he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t achieve than for the ones he did. That all changed with his victory Sunday in the Tour de France, catapulting Evans from cycling\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nearly man to global star\u00e2\u20ac\u201da position he already holds in his native Australia. Evans took a call of congratulations from [&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-52268","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\/52268","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=52268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52269,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52268\/revisions\/52269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}