{"id":841,"date":"2009-02-07T07:33:54","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T03:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=841"},"modified":"2009-03-17T21:39:35","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T04:39:35","slug":"cycling-is-the-new-golf-with-or-without-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=841","title":{"rendered":"Cycling is the new golf, with or without clubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Resplendent in the white, black and blue road-riding colours of the Sydney Cycling Club, the former president James &#8220;Doc&#8221; Guthrie steps off his $8000 bike, surveys the Adelaide cityscape and smiles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, the beauty of this place is that here people wave their hands at you; in Sydney they shake their fists. Here people throw you kisses; in Sydney they hurl abuse,&#8221; says Guthrie, 56, a university professor.<\/p>\n<p>He is one of an estimated 2000 Sydneysiders in town for the Tour Down Under,&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/merredin.yourguide.com.au\/news\/national\/national\/sport\/cycling-is-the-new-golf-with-or-without-clubs\/1415363.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resplendent in the white, black and blue road-riding colours of the Sydney Cycling Club, the former president James &#8220;Doc&#8221; Guthrie steps off his $8000 bike, surveys the Adelaide cityscape and smiles. &#8220;You know, the beauty of this place is that here people wave their hands at you; in Sydney they shake their fists. Here people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,39,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-mt-bike","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","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=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4738,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/4738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}