{"id":68831,"date":"2012-08-18T07:49:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T14:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=68831"},"modified":"2012-08-18T07:49:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T14:49:16","slug":"bmx-competition-drives-dental-professor-papa-wahl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=68831","title":{"rendered":"BMX competition drives dental professor &#8216;Papa Wahl&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By day, Jim Wahl teaches first-year dental students the basic science of teeth.<\/p>\n<p>At night, he demonstrates how to break them.<\/p>\n<p>Wahl is an associate professor of oral biology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry. He also is a BMX racing nut, a 43-year-old kid at heart who the youngsters call \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Papa Wahl.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I just never found anything more interesting to do,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Wahl, who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been hooked on BMX since he was 9 years old. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I was drawn to individual sports as a kid because when I lose, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my own damn fault.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/journalstar.com\/sports\/local\/other-sports\/bmx-competition-drives-dental-professor-papa-wahl\/article_88388ebb-1f39-5287-a7e6-b39da828a097.html?comment_form=true\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By day, Jim Wahl teaches first-year dental students the basic science of teeth. At night, he demonstrates how to break them. Wahl is an associate professor of oral biology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry. He also is a BMX racing nut, a 43-year-old kid at heart who the youngsters call [&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-68831","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\/68831","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=68831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68832,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68831\/revisions\/68832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}