{"id":66223,"date":"2012-07-03T09:31:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T16:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=66223"},"modified":"2012-07-03T09:31:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T16:31:41","slug":"bmx-pedaling-pioneer-remembers-bmx-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=66223","title":{"rendered":"BMX &#8211; Pedaling pioneer remembers BMX days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Butte Falls, Oregon \u00e2\u20ac\u201d John Palfreyman Jr. never expected his childhood hobby to one day grow into a worldwide sport featured in the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Growing up the son of a motocross shop owner in Santa Monica in the 1970s, Palfreyman couldn&#8217;t be more representative of the types of kids who started BMX racing nearly three decades ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Southern California teens who first created BMX, or bicycle motocross, were young boys wanting to emulate the motocross done by adults.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">They copied the way older men rode motorcycles \u00e2\u20ac\u201d only on their bikes \u00e2\u20ac\u201d launching off jumps, speeding around corners and eventually\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mailtribune.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20120703\/NEWS\/207030316\" 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>Butte Falls, Oregon \u00e2\u20ac\u201d John Palfreyman Jr. never expected his childhood hobby to one day grow into a worldwide sport featured in the Olympics. Growing up the son of a motocross shop owner in Santa Monica in the 1970s, Palfreyman couldn&#8217;t be more representative of the types of kids who started BMX racing nearly three [&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-66223","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\/66223","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=66223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66224,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66223\/revisions\/66224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}