{"id":69183,"date":"2012-08-26T09:43:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T16:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=69183"},"modified":"2012-08-26T09:43:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T16:43:48","slug":"cycling-dont-cry-for-me-says-defiant-armstrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=69183","title":{"rendered":"Cycling &#8211; &#8216;Don&#8217;t cry for me&#8217;, says defiant Armstrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lance Armstrong was back on his bike on Saturday, urging his supporters not to &#8216;cry&#8217; for him a day after the United States Anti-Doping Agency&#8217;s (USADA) decision to strip his seven Tour de France titles and ban him for life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In his first public appearance since announcing he would no longer fight doping charges brought by USADA, Armstrong finished second in a 36-mile mountain bike race in Aspen, Colorado, five minutes behind a 16-year-old rider, Keegan Swirbul\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/news\/dont-cry-says-defiant-armstrong-042428363--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>Lance Armstrong was back on his bike on Saturday, urging his supporters not to &#8216;cry&#8217; for him a day after the United States Anti-Doping Agency&#8217;s (USADA) decision to strip his seven Tour de France titles and ban him for life. In his first public appearance since announcing he would no longer fight doping charges brought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,39,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-mt-bike","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69183","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=69183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69184,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69183\/revisions\/69184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}