{"id":79393,"date":"2013-05-17T20:22:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T03:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=79393"},"modified":"2013-05-17T20:22:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T03:22:20","slug":"mt-bike-explore-santa-barbaras-big-mountain-trails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=79393","title":{"rendered":"Mt Bike &#8211; Explore Santa Barbara\u2019s Big Mountain Trails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I\u2019m headed toward the California coast and a beautiful image filters into view\u2014big mountains cascading into the sea. There are few places in the world that have this setting; Santa Barbara is one of them. Standing in town, you marvel at the Santa Ynez Mountains rising steeply. It\u2019s a dramatic and unforgettable landscape, one that you know has a boatload of amazing riding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I won\u2019t sugar coat it though: the trails here are demanding, requiring commitment, fitness and an appetite for adventure. Big rides are plentiful but be prepared for big climbs and big descents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One of the best is\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/bicycling.com\/blogs\/all-over-the-map\/2013\/05\/17\/explore-santa-barbara%e2%80%99s-big-mountain-trails\/\" 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>I\u2019m headed toward the California coast and a beautiful image filters into view\u2014big mountains cascading into the sea. There are few places in the world that have this setting; Santa Barbara is one of them. Standing in town, you marvel at the Santa Ynez Mountains rising steeply. It\u2019s a dramatic and unforgettable landscape, one that [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-mt-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79393","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=79393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79394,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79393\/revisions\/79394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}