{"id":70855,"date":"2012-10-10T06:43:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T13:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=70855"},"modified":"2012-10-10T06:43:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T13:43:12","slug":"cycling-fitness-instead-of-surgery-man-pedals-off-the-pounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=70855","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Fitness &#8211; Instead Of Surgery, Man Pedals Off The Pounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A lot of Americans are struggling to lose a whole lot of weight, and they try all kinds of crazy things.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ernest Gagnon \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a man from Billerica, Mass. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d decided to shed pounds by getting into the often intense, high-adrenaline sport of cyclocross: racing road bikes on obstacle courses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Two years ago, Gagnon tipped the scales at 570 pounds. He was depressed and embarrassed to leave the house.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Being as big as I was, I really felt like I didn&#8217;t belong anywhere\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/10\/09\/162586325\/instead-of-surgery-man-pedals-off-the-pounds\" 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>A lot of Americans are struggling to lose a whole lot of weight, and they try all kinds of crazy things. Ernest Gagnon \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a man from Billerica, Mass. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d decided to shed pounds by getting into the often intense, high-adrenaline sport of cyclocross: racing road bikes on obstacle courses. Two years ago, Gagnon tipped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,38,72,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-cyclocross","category-fitness-nutrition","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70855","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=70855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70856,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70855\/revisions\/70856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}