{"id":80532,"date":"2013-06-17T19:37:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T02:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=80532"},"modified":"2013-06-17T19:37:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T02:37:10","slug":"beck-family-shares-love-of-bmx-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=80532","title":{"rendered":"Beck family shares love of BMX racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first time John Beck attempted to race a BMX bike as a child, things didn\u2019t go so well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was 10 years old my mother took me out to a BMX track in Houston, Texas, where I grew up,\u201d Beck began. \u201cMy very first race I went over the handle bars and busted out my front tooth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, she realized that sport was going to be a little too expensive. She ended up giving me a basketball and said, \u2018Here, you\u2019re tall. This will work out better for you and will be a lot cheaper, too.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thirty one years later, Beck is giving BMX racing another try \u2013 thanks to\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dothaneagle.com\/sports\/article_940a2ec2-d63d-11e2-b22f-001a4bcf6878.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time John Beck attempted to race a BMX bike as a child, things didn\u2019t go so well. \u201cWhen I was 10 years old my mother took me out to a BMX track in Houston, Texas, where I grew up,\u201d Beck began. \u201cMy very first race I went over the handle bars and busted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80532","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=80532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80533,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80532\/revisions\/80533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}