{"id":69647,"date":"2012-09-07T18:34:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T01:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=69647"},"modified":"2012-09-07T18:34:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T01:34:51","slug":"i-am-woman-hear-me-rev-female-motorcycle-riders-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=69647","title":{"rendered":"I am woman, hear me rev: Female motorcycle riders on the rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Some women get their nails done or go to book club. For Charlie Thayer, &#8220;me&#8221; time is tearing through the Santa Cruz Mountains on her neon blue Kawasaki Ninja 250 sport bike.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;You&#8217;re out there moving through time and space, present in your surroundings,&#8221; says Thayer, 31, of Santa Clara. &#8220;There&#8217;s also the thrill of going 70 mph. But don&#8217;t tell my husband that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thayer represents a growing trend: female motorcycle riders. According to the Motorcycle Industry Council, the number of female operators shot up from 4.3 million in 2003 to 7.1 million in 2009\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/bay-area-living\/ci_21467397\/female-motorcycle-riders-rise\" 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>Some women get their nails done or go to book club. For Charlie Thayer, &#8220;me&#8221; time is tearing through the Santa Cruz Mountains on her neon blue Kawasaki Ninja 250 sport bike. &#8220;You&#8217;re out there moving through time and space, present in your surroundings,&#8221; says Thayer, 31, of Santa Clara. &#8220;There&#8217;s also the thrill of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,68,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-scooters","category-street-riding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69647","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=69647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69648,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69647\/revisions\/69648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}