{"id":68646,"date":"2012-08-14T14:45:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T21:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=68646"},"modified":"2012-08-14T14:45:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T21:45:36","slug":"motorcycle-john-dowd-47-still-loves-racing-moto-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=68646","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle &#8211; John Dowd, 47, still loves racing Moto-X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOUTHWICK, Mass. &#8212; &#8220;You can&#8217;t teach an old dog new tricks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Don&#8217;t tell that to 47-year-old John Dowd, who is nicknamed the &#8220;Junk Yard Dog&#8221; because he grew up in a junkyard and is the oldest rider on the Pro Motocross series.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On Saturday, Dowd, of Ludlow, Mass., finished 14th out of 40 drivers in the 450 class at the Moto-X 338 National in Southwick, Mass.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That finish gave him enough points to keep his bike number, 16, for another season\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/playbook\/fandom\/post\/_\/id\/8656\/john-dowd-47-still-loves-racing-moto-x\" 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>SOUTHWICK, Mass. &#8212; &#8220;You can&#8217;t teach an old dog new tricks.&#8221; Don&#8217;t tell that to 47-year-old John Dowd, who is nicknamed the &#8220;Junk Yard Dog&#8221; because he grew up in a junkyard and is the oldest rider on the Pro Motocross series. On Saturday, Dowd, of Ludlow, Mass., finished 14th out of 40 drivers in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,8,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motocross","category-motorcycle","category-off-road-dirt-track"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68646","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=68646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68647,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68646\/revisions\/68647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}