{"id":81059,"date":"2013-07-03T20:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T03:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=81059"},"modified":"2013-07-03T20:00:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T03:00:02","slug":"motocross-champion-john-dowd-takes-a-final-bow-in-likely-the-final-race-at-his-home-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=81059","title":{"rendered":"Motocross champion John Dowd takes a final bow in likely the final race at his home track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">John Dowd made his professional motocross debut on the sands of Southwick in southern Massachusetts, a late-blooming 21-year-old trying to prove he belonged with riders who had been on their dirt bikes far longer than he had.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nearly 27 years later, Dowd is back at Southwick, this time as a 47-year-old veteran closing out his career in what will likely be the final race at his hometown track \u2013 with his 16-year-old trying to earn a spot in the field next to him\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.augusta.com\/sports\/other-sports\/2013-06-28\/unorthodox-motocross-champion-john-dowd-takes-final-bow-likely-final\" 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>John Dowd made his professional motocross debut on the sands of Southwick in southern Massachusetts, a late-blooming 21-year-old trying to prove he belonged with riders who had been on their dirt bikes far longer than he had. Nearly 27 years later, Dowd is back at Southwick, this time as a 47-year-old veteran closing out his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motocross","category-motorcycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81059","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=81059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81061,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81059\/revisions\/81061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}