{"id":68954,"date":"2012-08-21T06:56:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T13:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=68954"},"modified":"2012-08-21T06:56:47","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T13:56:47","slug":"olympics-2012-get-involved-in-bmx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=68954","title":{"rendered":"Olympics 2012: get involved in BMX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">BMX isn&#8217;t just for moody teenagers in baggy trousers, says Peter Beech &#8211; it&#8217;s a thrilling competitive sport<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">BMX actually stands for bicycle motocross, and involves a lot more than riding a small bike around urban spaces wearing large trousers. Real BMX tracks are made of packed dirt and involve a series of jumps, with the aim being to beat your competitors over a set number of circuits. In freestyle BMX, performing tricks is the order of the day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">BMX bikes are fairly cheap and robust with no gears, which means it&#8217;s easy enough to acquire one and get started. The biggest problem when jumping is\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/2012\/aug\/20\/bmx-olympics-2012-get-involved?newsfeed=true\" 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>BMX isn&#8217;t just for moody teenagers in baggy trousers, says Peter Beech &#8211; it&#8217;s a thrilling competitive sport BMX actually stands for bicycle motocross, and involves a lot more than riding a small bike around urban spaces wearing large trousers. Real BMX tracks are made of packed dirt and involve a series of jumps, with [&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-68954","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\/68954","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=68954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68956,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68954\/revisions\/68956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}