{"id":80792,"date":"2013-06-22T08:34:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T15:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=80792"},"modified":"2013-06-22T08:34:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T15:34:17","slug":"speedway-motorcycle-racing-on-the-dirt-and-under-the-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=80792","title":{"rendered":"Speedway Motorcycle Racing: on the dirt and under the lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday! Thrills, chills, and cheap nachos<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The poor bastard, he never saw it coming.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Wait. He definitely saw it coming; he just couldn&#8217;t do anything about it. There he was, a race marshal running onto the course after the green bike from the first heat overcooked his motorcycle on the back corner. And as he&#8217;s dragging Green Guy off the course, he looks up and what does he see &#8212; another motorcycle taking the same narrow line, already sideways, barreling right towards him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Boom, motorcycle and motorcycle and man impact at the same time. And our poor race marshal executes a perfect front flip into the air, over the second motorcycle, managing to land on his pelvis and getting right back on his feet. The second bike wasn&#8217;t so lucky\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoweek.com\/article\/20130621\/CARNEWS01\/130629974\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and 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>Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday! Thrills, chills, and cheap nachos The poor bastard, he never saw it coming.\u00a0 Wait. He definitely saw it coming; he just couldn&#8217;t do anything about it. There he was, a race marshal running onto the course after the green bike from the first heat overcooked his motorcycle on the back corner. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-off-road-dirt-track"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80792","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=80792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80793,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80792\/revisions\/80793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}