{"id":6780,"date":"2009-03-31T09:11:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T16:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6780"},"modified":"2009-03-31T09:52:25","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T16:52:25","slug":"cycling-road-armstrong-faces-race-to-compete-in-giro-d%e2%80%99italia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6780","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; Armstrong Faces Race to Compete in Giro d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Italia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Giro is still doable,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Lance Armstrong continues to insist, and it would take a confirmed cynic to doubt the determination of a man who came back from testicular cancer to win the Tour de France seven consecutive times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Still, for a rider with a fractured right collarbone mended with a stainless steel plate and 12 screws, the mountainous Giro d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Italia seems an impossible trek. Much will depend on the pain threshold of the rider &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/31\/sports\/cycling\/31iht-BIKE.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Giro is still doable,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Lance Armstrong continues to insist, and it would take a confirmed cynic to doubt the determination of a man who came back from testicular cancer to win the Tour de France seven consecutive times. Still, for a rider with a fractured right collarbone mended with a stainless steel plate and [&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-6780","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\/6780","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=6780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6816,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780\/revisions\/6816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}