{"id":65041,"date":"2012-06-01T06:38:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T13:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=65041"},"modified":"2012-06-01T06:38:34","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T13:38:34","slug":"bmx-racing-at-19-best-and-brashest-in-bmx-entering-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=65041","title":{"rendered":"BMX Racing &#8211; At 19, best and brashest in BMX entering Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Connor Fields lounged on his BMX bike this month at the Olympic Training Center. While most of his fellow riders met with representatives from Oakley, Fields surveyed the track, a replica of the one riders will race on at the London Olympics, and noted his disdain for goggles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Asked why he elected not to wear them, what with the dirt and the rocks and the competitors on small bikes that can reach 40 mph, Fields laughed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get hit if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in front,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bendbulletin.com\/article\/20120531\/NEWS0107\/205310350\/\" 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>Connor Fields lounged on his BMX bike this month at the Olympic Training Center. While most of his fellow riders met with representatives from Oakley, Fields surveyed the track, a replica of the one riders will race on at the London Olympics, and noted his disdain for goggles. Asked why he elected not to wear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65041","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=65041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65042,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65041\/revisions\/65042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}