{"id":58374,"date":"2012-01-02T23:03:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T06:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=58374"},"modified":"2012-01-02T23:03:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T06:03:29","slug":"off-road-motorcycle-2012-dakar-rally-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=58374","title":{"rendered":"Off-road Motorcycle &#8211; 2012 Dakar Rally Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As millions of Americans gather to watch the ball drop in Times Square, our neighbors to the south are kicking off the New Year in a much different fashion. Nestled in the seaside resort of Mar del Plata in Argentina, many are anxiously awaiting the start of the 2012 Dakar Rally raid. Considered by many to be the toughest off-road rally in existence, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no shortage of motorcycle contestants lining up to try their hand in the 34th edition of the Dakar Rally, which is set to cover approximately 5600 miles of varied terrain within 14 days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Roughly 80% of participants in the 2012 rally will be amateurs running against some of the toughest and most accomplished\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcycle-usa.com\/503\/11882\/Motorcycle-Article\/2012-Dakar-Rally-Preview.aspx\" 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>As millions of Americans gather to watch the ball drop in Times Square, our neighbors to the south are kicking off the New Year in a much different fashion. Nestled in the seaside resort of Mar del Plata in Argentina, many are anxiously awaiting the start of the 2012 Dakar Rally raid. Considered by many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-off-road-dirt-track"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58374","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=58374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58375,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58374\/revisions\/58375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}