{"id":52655,"date":"2011-08-01T05:57:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T12:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=52655"},"modified":"2011-08-01T05:57:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T12:57:48","slug":"the-x-games-newest-sport-is-filled-with-hitsugly-ones-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=52655","title":{"rendered":"The X Games&#8217; newest sport is filled with hits&#8230;ugly ones too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The obscure motocross discipline of Enduro X got prime-time spotlight at the close of X Games 17 Sunday, and true to its billing, the new event proved a suitably bone-crunching affair entirely worthy of X involvement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s pretty clear Enduro X is here to stay,&#8221; said X Games host Sal Masekela.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The sport&#8217;s biggest hero, Taddy Blazusiak of Poland, came-from-behind to win his first X Games gold medal after surviving an unplanned trip to the last chance qualifier in order to gain entrance to the main event. That was one more grueling race than he wanted\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/blog\/29308\/the+x+games+newest+sport+is+filled+with+hitsugly+ones+too\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and 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>The obscure motocross discipline of Enduro X got prime-time spotlight at the close of X Games 17 Sunday, and true to its billing, the new event proved a suitably bone-crunching affair entirely worthy of X involvement. &#8220;It&#8217;s pretty clear Enduro X is here to stay,&#8221; said X Games host Sal Masekela. The sport&#8217;s biggest hero, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,8,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motocross","category-motorcycle","category-off-road-dirt-track"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52655","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=52655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52656,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52655\/revisions\/52656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}