{"id":84809,"date":"2013-10-05T21:02:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T04:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=84809"},"modified":"2013-10-05T21:02:53","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T04:02:53","slug":"bmx-racing-no-pedals-balance-bike-racing-offers-tiny-tots-a-chance-to-keep-up-with-the-bigger-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=84809","title":{"rendered":"BMX Racing &#8211; No pedals: Balance bike racing offers tiny tots a chance to keep up with the bigger kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">EAGLE, Colo. \u2014 They gather at the starting line with their tiny handlebars nearly touching. Decked out in helmets, jerseys and protective knee guards, they wait at the gate, listening to the call of \u201cOn your mark, get set, go!\u201d before racing off.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Between 18 months and 4 years old, they look like mini versions of BMX racers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">They are \u2014 sort of.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yes, they are on bikes and they are racing. Difference is\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.washingtonpost.com\/2013-10-01\/lifestyle\/42557087_1_mountain-bike-bode-usa-bmx\" 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>EAGLE, Colo. \u2014 They gather at the starting line with their tiny handlebars nearly touching. Decked out in helmets, jerseys and protective knee guards, they wait at the gate, listening to the call of \u201cOn your mark, get set, go!\u201d before racing off. Between 18 months and 4 years old, they look like mini versions [&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-84809","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\/84809","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=84809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84811,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84809\/revisions\/84811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}