{"id":7432,"date":"2009-04-04T10:17:54","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T17:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7432"},"modified":"2009-04-04T10:58:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T17:58:12","slug":"atv-motocross-off-road-atv-lead-ban-is-not-sensible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7432","title":{"rendered":"ATV Motocross Off-road &#8211; ATV lead ban is not sensible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Makers and sellers of ATVs and motorbikes continue to suffer losses nationwide because of a well-meaning but overbroad regulation aimed at protecting children from lead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ever see a kid chewing on the air valve of an ATV tire? Licking the battery? Biting handlebars?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">They all can contain lead and that&#8217;s the kind of effort it would take for it to endanger kids, critics of the regulation say.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yet, an immediate halt has been placed on these motor vehicle sales. Also, there&#8217;s no grandfather provision for models already sitting in stores&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/article\/20090403\/OPINIONS01\/904030312\/1006\/OPINIONS\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jdoqocy.com\/placeholder-3701103?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Makers and sellers of ATVs and motorbikes continue to suffer losses nationwide because of a well-meaning but overbroad regulation aimed at protecting children from lead. Ever see a kid chewing on the air valve of an ATV tire? Licking the battery? Biting handlebars? They all can contain lead and that&#8217;s the kind of effort it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,43,8,45,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-motocross","category-motorcycle","category-off-road-dirt-track","category-off-road-auto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7432","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=7432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7479,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7432\/revisions\/7479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}