{"id":68387,"date":"2012-08-09T19:26:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T02:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=68387"},"modified":"2012-08-09T19:26:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T02:26:38","slug":"olympics-bmx-is-inspiring-a-generation-fans-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=68387","title":{"rendered":"Olympic&#8217;s BMX is inspiring a generation, fans say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8216;Inspire a generation&#8217;, the London\u00c2\u00a02012 slogan says, and BMX is the perfect sport to do that, whatever scornful purists might say about the high-octane competition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Humps and bumps, thrills and spills: the formula is perfect for kids who clearly think the adrenalin-pumped riders are the epitome of cool.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The riders themselves feel the same way. They argue that the Olympics, which introduced BMX &#8211; bike motocross &#8211; at Beijing in 2008, need to attract a younger crowd and this fast, frenetic and fun sport is a great way of pulling them in\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/news\/olympics-cycling-bmx-inspiring-generation-fans-074122978--spt.html\" 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>&#8216;Inspire a generation&#8217;, the London\u00c2\u00a02012 slogan says, and BMX is the perfect sport to do that, whatever scornful purists might say about the high-octane competition. Humps and bumps, thrills and spills: the formula is perfect for kids who clearly think the adrenalin-pumped riders are the epitome of cool.\u00c2\u00a0 The riders themselves feel the same way. [&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-68387","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\/68387","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=68387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68389,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68387\/revisions\/68389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}