{"id":7402,"date":"2009-04-04T09:38:53","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T16:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7402"},"modified":"2009-04-04T13:31:50","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T20:31:50","slug":"motorcycle-street-choppers-new-form-of-riding-in-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7402","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Street &#8211; Choppers: New form of riding in Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7403\" title=\"korea-choppers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/04\/korea-choppers.bmp\" alt=\"korea-choppers\" \/>You can hear it from a mile away &#8211; thick and baritone &#8211; nothing like the irritating sounds of cheap scooters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It grabs everyone&#8217;s attention because no one has ever seen anything like it. It&#8217;s more than a motorcycle and not quite like anything else &#8211; it&#8217;s a chopper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So what exactly is this machine?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;They&#8217;re called choppers because all unnecessary parts from a factory-tuned and trimmed bike are chopped off,&#8221; said Lee Hyun-eui, the founder and chief engineer of Seoul-based Moon Choppers&#8230;. <a href=\"http:\/\/motoring.asiaone.com\/Motoring\/Motorworld\/Motorbikes\/Story\/A1Story20090404-133244.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can hear it from a mile away &#8211; thick and baritone &#8211; nothing like the irritating sounds of cheap scooters. It grabs everyone&#8217;s attention because no one has ever seen anything like it. It&#8217;s more than a motorcycle and not quite like anything else &#8211; it&#8217;s a chopper. So what exactly is this machine? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-street-riding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402","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=7402"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7500,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402\/revisions\/7500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}